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Cooley, Aaron – Educational Research Quarterly, 2009
This paper investigates the history and concept of liberalism from its first uses to its most modern incarnations. The paper aims to serve as a primer for educators and educational researchers to better understand liberalism and its place as a foundational and controversial discourse in politics, social science, and education. Through reference to…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Social Sciences, Educational Change, Educational Researchers
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Petruccelli, Meredith Lohr; Fiorello, Catherine A.; Thurman, S. Kenneth – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2010
Teacher perceptions of their students' cognitive abilities affect the referrals they make and intervention strategies they implement. In this study, teachers and school psychologists were asked to sort basic academic tasks into categories on the basis of the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) broad cognitive abilities, such as fluid reasoning and…
Descriptors: Social Theories, School Psychologists, Teacher Attitudes, Classification
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Pelletier, Luc G.; Sharp, Elizabeth C. – Theory and Research in Education, 2009
The purpose of the present article is to review the contextual conditions that lead teachers to be more controlling rather than autonomy supportive with their students. Research indicates that the more teachers perceive that school administration thwarts their autonomy by imposing pressures on them, the less autonomous they are in their motivation…
Descriptors: School Administration, Professional Autonomy, Context Effect, Teaching Styles