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Case, Jennifer M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
Self-authorship, describing a synthesis of intellectual, intrapersonal, and interpersonal development, remains an evident but elusive goal of college education. I sought to track self-authorship in a racially diverse group of 30 young South African engineering graduates. In discussing their career trajectories, all individuals demonstrated…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Engineering Education, College Graduates, Minority Groups
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Barber, James P.; King, Patricia M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
Theories of college student and adult intellectual development have shown that learning to interpret, evaluate, and construct knowledge evolves in a developmentally predictable fashion, and have offered explanations for the difficulties some students face when asked to make their own decisions (Baxter Magolda, 1992; Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger,…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Development, Student Development, Intellectual Development
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic may be one of the greatest challenges our provincial education system has ever addressed. In the spring of 2020, many governments around the world ordered schools to suspend in-person instruction for most of their students, requiring education systems to pivot almost overnight to online or remote teaching and virtual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Moynihan, Joseph A. – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
Transition Year is a unique and exciting programme situated in the middle of the six year second level education system in Ireland. Since its introduction in 1974, the programme has experienced unprecedented growth now being offered in over 80% of schools on the island. Transition Year seeks to emphasize alternative learning methodologies…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Education Work Relationship, Experiential Learning, Social Development
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Gao, Perry – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
Children naturally love to learn, but might not like to be taught in certain ways. Teachers' improper ways of teaching might make a child shut down his or her willingness to learn, which is called "not-learning". Not-learning does not refer to an incapability to learn, but is rather a choice a child intentionally or unintentionally makes…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning, Cognitive Development, Intellectual Development
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Olthouse, Jill M.; Edmunds, Alan L.; Sauder, Adrienne E. – Roeper Review, 2014
Researchers have largely ignored students' creative works as a source of insight into their everyday experiences. This study is a hermeneutic analysis of 23 works written by talented writers on the topic of academics. The findings include depictions of students as detached from their teachers and their curriculum. In these stories and poems,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Creativity, Creative Writing, Writing (Composition)
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Safatly, Lise; Itani, Hiba; El-Hajj, Ali; Salem, Dania – Ethics and Education, 2017
In modern and well-structured universities, ethics centers are playing a key role in hosting, organizing, and managing activities to enrich and guide students' ethical thinking and analysis. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the goals, activities, and administration of ethics centers, as well as their role in promoting ethical thinking…
Descriptors: College Role, Ethics, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
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Besançon, Maud – Gifted and Talented International, 2013
In this article, conceptions of creativity in giftedness and their implications for education are reviewed. First, the definition of giftedness is examined taking into consideration the difference between intellectual giftedness and creative giftedness and the difference between potential and talent. Second, the nature of creativity based on the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Gifted, Definitions, Intellectual Development
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Tayler, Collette – European Journal of Education, 2015
Learning in the earliest stage of life--the infancy, toddlerhood and preschool period--is relational and rapid. Child-initiated and adult-mediated conversations, playful interactions and learning through active involvement are integral to young children making sense of their environments and to their development over time. The child's experience…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Intellectual Development, Social Development
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Murray Bettina P. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Urban college students (n=179) from diverse cultural backgrounds and regions received instruction in the writing of short narratives, or allegories, to express generalizations about human behavior. At the beginning of the three-month semester students were given samples of allegories concluding with a lesson and then were asked to create an…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Urban Areas, College Students, Student Diversity
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Burns, Lawrence R.; Stephenson, Paul L.; Bellamy, Katy – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
Although students make some epistemological progress during college, most graduate without developing meaning-making strategies that reflect an understanding that knowledge is socially constructed. Using a pre-test-post-test design and a within-subjects 2 × 2 mixed-design ANOVA, this study reports on empirical findings which support the Socratic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Lecture Method, Psychology
Geiger, Matthew W. – Independent School, 2016
There are two kinds of drama that is normally associated with high school: the "drama" that accompanies social life in late adolescence and the dramas that are performed in a school's auditorium or performing arts center. The drama about which the author writes about in this article is of a different sort altogether. It is, however, like…
Descriptors: High School Students, Role Playing, Ethnography, Reflection
Triantari, Sotiria A. – Online Submission, 2011
In the author's opinion Nietzsche has adopted the three Aristotelian factors, i.e., logic, learning and experience, showing the nihilistic element in the educational system of his days. By means of the term "formal education", Nietzsche implies the education comprises the development of the intellectual faculties of the learner. According to…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Logical Thinking, Learning, Habituation
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Costello, Patrick J. M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
The central aim of this paper is to undertake a critical review of arguments which propose that chess should be taught in schools and other educational settings. In particular, I offer an answer to the question: "Should chess be taught in early childhood?" Many claims have been made about the educational benefits of chess instruction. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Games, Action Research, Intellectual Development
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Yasemin Ozdem-Yilmaz; Bulent Cavas – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2016
The aim of this research is to investigate the aspects of science education, which are pedagogically desirable for the individual in the society of 21st century. The research was conducted by Curricular Delphi Study method in three rounds with international comparisons. In the first round, an open-ended survey was used, and in the next two rounds…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Delphi Technique, Inquiry
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