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Flogaitis, Evgenia; Nomikou, Christina; Naoum, Elli; Katsenou, Christina – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2012
The educational approach views the community of practice as a community of teachers and students who share common rules and values, information and experiences through dialogue and collaboration. Three doctoral theses are in progress at the University of Athens which study the possibilities of creating a community of practice in three different…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Nursery Schools, Environmental Education, Action Research
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Hawkins, C. Matthew – Negro Educational Review, 2009
This article responds to Shelby Gilbert's "A Study of Ogbu and Simon's Thesis." The author begins by saying that he thinks that this study of examining Ogbu and Simons' thesis (to investigate school performance of Black immigrant and non-immigrant students in the United States) makes a thought-provoking contribution to overall discussions…
Descriptors: Investigations, International Studies, Academic Achievement, Minority Groups
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Saxe, Geoffrey B. – Human Development, 2008
In his 1979 "Human Development" article reprinted in this anniversary issue, James Wertsch presented an approach to genetic analysis of the shifting regulation of problem-solving behavior in early childhood. In my reflections on Wertsch's seminal contribution, I discuss ways that subsequent inquiry built upon ideas he elaborated in the…
Descriptors: Social History, Investigations, Interpersonal Relationship, Genetics
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Wampold, Bruce E.; Goodheart, Carol D.; Levant, Ronald F. – American Psychologist, 2007
Responds to comments by D. C. Wendt and B. D. Slife (see record 2007-13085-019), P. H. Hunsberger (see record 2007-13085-020), and R. B. Stuart and S. O. Lilienfeld (see record 2007-13085-021) regarding the report by the APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice (see record 2006-05893-001) entitled Evidence-based practice in…
Descriptors: Investigations, Theory Practice Relationship, Psychology, Evidence
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Clahsen, Harald; Felser, Claudia – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
The core idea that we argued for in the target article was that grammatical processing in a second language (L2) is fundamentally different from grammatical processing in one's native (first) language (L1). Our major source of evidence for this claim comes from experimental psycholinguistic studies investigating morphological and syntactic…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Dominance, Cues, Semantics