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Bottom-Line Mentality as an Antecedent of Social Undermining and the Moderating Roles of Core Self-Evaluations and Conscientiousness
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Greenbaum, Rebecca L.; Mawritz, Mary Bardes; Eissa, Gabi – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2012
We propose that an employee's bottom-line mentality may have an important effect on social undermining behavior in organizations. Bottom-line mentality is defined as 1-dimensional thinking that revolves around securing bottom-line outcomes to the neglect of competing priorities. Across a series of studies, we establish an initial nomological…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Supervisors, Adults, Thinking Skills
Deconstructing "Education for All": Discourse, Power and the Politics of Inclusion
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Nguyen, Thi Xuan Thuy – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2010
The UNESCO "World Declaration on Education for All" from 1990 sets in motion the new agenda for educational reform that provides basic education for all disadvantaged children and adults in the global context. Since its formulation, a set of consecutive policy texts has been issued by international agencies to monitor, evaluate, and strengthen the…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Disadvantaged Youth, Ideology, Educational Change
Decision Making in Second Language Acquisition.
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Birdsong, David – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1994
Isolates domain-general decision-making (DM) processes in their specific instantiations in adult second-language acquisition (SLA). Some impediments to success in SLA may be artifacts of mature (adult) DM procedures. (Contains 29 references.) (JP)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Decision Making
Reflective Judgment: Theory and Research on the Development of Epistemic Assumptions Through Adulthood
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King, Patricia M.; Kitchener, Karen Strohm – Educational Psychologist, 2004
The reflective judgment model (RJM) describes the development of complex reasoning in late adolescents and adults, and how the epistemological assumptions people hold are related to the way they make judgments about controversial (ill-structured) issues. This article describes the theoretical assumptions that have guided the development of the RJM…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Research Methodology, Longitudinal Studies
The Cognitive Developmental Approach to "Epistemology" and Its Relation to Logical and Moral Stages.
Broughton, John – 1975
This paper presents a cross-sectional investigation of adolescents' and young adults' reflective epistemological development. Three groups of 8 subjects (4 male and female) ages 10, 14, and 18 were given Piagetian tasks, the Kohlberg moral judgment questionnaire, and an epistemology interview covering such concepts as knowledge, thought, feeling,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Adults, Cognitive Development
Developing Reflective Judgment: Understanding and Promoting Intellectual Growth and Critical Thinking in Adolescents and Adults. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series and Jossey-Bass Social and Behavioral Science Series.
King, Patricia M.; Kitchener, Karen Strohm – 1994
This book describes the Reflective Judgment Model (RJM) and provides a comprehensive review of the research on it and the Reflective Judgment Interview (RJI). Chapter 1 defines reflective judgment as an often neglected aspect of critical thinking. Chapter 2 discusses stage-related assumptions that underlie RJM and relates RJM to current work in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Cognitive Development