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Doll, William E., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1981
A structural arithmetic curriculum is designed to help students develop their own powers of thought. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Intellectual Development, Problem Solving

Becker, George – School Review, 1979
Argues that two linked intellectual developments--the "Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns" and the evolution of the genius concept--played an important role in the rise of the modern intellectual. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Ancient History, Evolution, Historical Reviews, Intellectual Development

Yalisove, Daniel – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Investigates the development sequence of children's comprehension of riddles. In Study I riddles and jokes were collected and classified from children of grades 1 through 10. In Study II, students of grades 1, 3, 6, 10, and college were given selected riddles from three categories determined in Study I to test the predicted comprehension sequence.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comprehension, Developmental Stages

Llanes, Jose R. – Roeper Review, 1980
The author stresses the importance of including foreign language in the education of gifted children. Bilingualism, the author asserts, aids the development of mental abilities which assist in using language creatively. (PHR)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted

Brown, Arthur – Educational Theory, 1979
Two pairs of conflicting and interrelated values (the public good and the private good; freedom and equality) can be made compatible through education. (JD)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Educational Policy, Human Dignity, Institutions

Winer, Jane L.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1979
Investigated the role of cognitive complexity in the career maturity of college students. Results generally supported the prediction that career maturity would be positively associated with cognitive complexity. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Intellectual Development

Keen, Cheryl – Journal of Cooperative Education, 2001
Antioch College co-op freshmen (n=179) completed the Measure of Epistemological Reflection; 4 years later, of the 45 remaining, 20 retook the measure. Transitional knowing at entry increased to independent knowing as seniors. As freshmen, they exhibited higher levels of intellectual development than comparable groups at a highly selective…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperative Education, Epistemology, Higher Education

King, James Roy – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1989
The ways in which the mind creates new worlds, new contexts, and possible alternate realities are described. It is proposed that with this information, facility in devising new worlds and realities may be enhanced and imaginative reach expanded. (MSE)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences

Howley, Craig B. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1989
The assumptions of career education for intellectually and academically gifted students are examined with reference to new research about the characteristics of these students. It is suggested changes in career education in gifted programs are warranted. Discussion relates four initiatives for changes to the issues of careerism and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Gifted

Kernan, Keith T.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1988
Identifies and describes the features of spoken discourse that native speakers of English consider to be indicative of level of intellectual functioning. Discourse criteria include detail, coherence, story construction, storytelling performance, and metacomments. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Intellectual Development

Confrey, Jere – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1995
Presents a theory of intellectual development in which human development depends on environment, self is autonomous and communal, diversity and dissent are anticipated, emotional intelligence is acknowledged, abstraction is reconceptualized and placed in a dialectic, learning is a reciprocal activity, and classrooms are interactions among…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Intellectual Development, Learning Theories
Brethower, Dale – Journal of College and Adult Reading and Learning, 1990
Argues that the mission of the university is to create intelligence. Defines intelligence, discusses research on cognitive processes of learning, and discusses obstacles to using the demonstrate-label-coach-mastery strategy emphasizing the value of the clinical approach used to teach seven specific skills. Presents a classroom illustration of this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction, Intellectual Development

Harcharik, Kathleen – Journal of Cooperative Education, 1993
The internship program at Cal Poly Pomona is based on Piaget's theory of intellectual development, enabling students to move from concrete to formal thought. Components include meetings with teacher/coordinators, establishment of learning objectives, group meetings, employer visits and evaluations, daily logs, and self-evaluative reports. (SK)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Internship Programs, Program Design

Solway, David – International Journal of Applied Semiotics, 1999
Discusses outcomes based education, which is being adopted by schools across the United States. Suggests that this travesty of intellectual life is the classroom analogue of information processing, storage, and transfer, and offers a computational model of learning whose systematicity leaves no room for ambiguity, sensitivity to context, or the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Intellectual Development, Outcome Based Education
Kuhn, Deanna; Park, Seung-Ho – International Journal of Educational Research, 2005
We propose a concept of intellectual values as (a) shared within a group and defined by the extent to which intellectual engagement is regarded as worthwhile to the group's interests, (b) supported by an epistemological belief system, and (c) an important dimension of sociocultural practice and learning. A series of studies is described in which…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Intellectual Development, Adolescents, Ethnic Groups