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Educating for British Values: Kant's Philosophical Roadmap for Cosmopolitan Character Education
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Hildebrand, Carl – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
The UK's 2016 decision to exit the European Union and the discussion surrounding it indicate that public understanding of British identity has important consequences, one way or another. Defining British identity will be an important task in the years to come. The UK government not long ago provided some guidance on the matter of British identity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nationalism, Values Education, Democratic Values
Understanding the Concept of Change among Children and Young Adolescents.
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Crowther, E. M. – Educational Review, 1982
Samples of children and young adolescents were asked what the word "Change" meant to them and their responses were analyzed to discover the degree of understanding shown by different age groups. Results are reported and discussed. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Change, Concept Formation
Wason's Selection Task: Verification, Falsification and Matching.
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Reich, Shuli S.; Ruth, Pauline – British Journal of Psychology, 1982
Examined the effect of stimulus content on logical performance in a reasoning task. Earlier reports of the facilitating effect of thematic material on the tendency to reason logically were not supported, nor were previous reports that matching is the most common determinant of behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Style, College Students
The Elusive Thematic-Materials Effect in Wason's Selection Task.
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Griggs, Richard A.; Cox, James R. – British Journal of Psychology, 1982
Examined the possible facilitating effect of thematic materials in Wason's selection task. Two experiments failed to replicate previous findings. In support of a memory-cueing hypothesis, improved performance was found for an implication rule that was part of subjects' past experience. (Author)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Style, College Students
The Assessment of Mathematical Abilities.
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Osborn, Herbert H. – Educational Research, 1983
A test was given to 322 secondary students to develop a profile of mathematical ability based on four components: computation, pattern recognition, logical reasoning, and symbolic manipulation. These profiles were compared to mathematics test scores; the results verified hypotheses about individual differences in mental processes and knowledge…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Aptitude, Computation, Individual Differences
Students' Perceptions of the Concept of Life.
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Brumby, Margaret N. – Science Education, 1982
College students (N=52) were given unfamiliar or novel problems (written and interview responses) to determine how they characterize living things, criteria they use to distinguish between living/dead/nonliving, and to determine if their idea of life included the interrelationship between organisms and biosphere. Results and implications are…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Biology, College Science, College Students
No Longer Deaf to Their Needs.
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Flaxbeard, Richard; Toomey, Wendy – British Journal of Special Education, 1987
The difficulties experienced by deaf parents' hearing children (n=10) as they approached puberty were studied and compensatory education programs sought for them through residential and regular schools. The children exhibited conversational difficulties, memory problems, reasoning difficulties, and poor language comprehension. Children's…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescent Development, Communication Disorders, Compensatory Education