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The Underlying Architecture of the Creative Worlds of Children: Young Persons from the UK and China Unwittingly Generate More Concepts That Violate Ontological Category Structure than Do Older Adults during an Exemplar-Generation Task
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Gregory, Justin P.; Greenway, Tyler S. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2019
Is our cognition the underlying architecture of the recurrent and pan-cultural imaginative ideas of children and adolescents? Recent cross-cultural studies show that children and adolescents recall proportionally more creative, counterintuitive concepts than older adults. One outstanding concern is that cultural transmission is also constrained by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Demography, Children
Key Data on Adolescence.
Coleman, John – 1999
In order to counteract widespread stereotyping of adolescents and to provide a historical perspective on the lives of youth in Great Britain, this report compiles statistical data in six areas regarding adolescents and youth. Chapter 1, "Population, Families and Households," presents information on the population of the United Kingdom…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Experiments with the First Year of Apprenticeships in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Report of a Visiting Party. Studies in Vocational Education and Training in the Federal Republic of Germany. Number Three Revised.
Russell, Russ, Ed.; Neale, Michael, Ed. – 1983
A party of vocational educators from the United Kingdom (UK) traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to observe current experiments with the first year of apprenticeship training or, as it is called in Germany, the Berufsgrundbildungsjahr (BGJ). During its study, the visiting party focused its attention on the objectives, design,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Apprenticeships, Change Strategies