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Ravert, Russell D.; Evans, Michael A. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2007
Survey data from 174 university students are presented, on a scale designed to measure preference for absolute knowledge and perspective in instruction, including online discussions. Results demonstrate a strong effect of class level such that students in lower grade levels reported a greater preference for instruction involving unambiguous…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes, Online Courses, Perspective Taking
Stone, Lynda – 1992
This essay suggests that a profound philosophical misunderstanding exists concerning western science and its application to education and specifically to teaching. Based on the analysis of Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, the paper suggests that western identifying principles have taken on the role of "games" where deep introspection is…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cultural Influences, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Kvale, Steinar – 1995
This paper explores the relevancy of apprenticeships for professional training. While often neglected in current educational theory, apprenticeship training is common in the arts and in the mentoring and supervision of professionals. The apprenticeship model may provide solutions for some of the problems of the current educational system such as…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Epistemology
Noel, Jana R. – 1993
This paper recognizes current interest in "the practical," particularly in research on teaching, and it explores similarities or distinctions between underlying conceptions of the practical across several programs, research projects, and scholarly reflections on teaching. Following an introduction, the paper reviews three research…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles, Educational Research
O'Malley, J. Michael; Chamot, Anna Uhl – 1993
A study of learning strategies in second language learning, of both English and other languages, presents a theory of the role learning strategies play and uses it to examine specific studies and to integrate research results. The research and theory described here are based on a cognitive information processing perspective of human thought and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Educational Strategies
Buske-Zainal, Patricia M. – 1995
"What is it like to be in teaching together?" has been the guiding question for this hermeneutic phenomenological study with the full-time faculty of a small engineering college. It notes the faculty struggles and conflicts arising from diverse ways of knowing associated with gender and academic discipline differences. It also explores differing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Faculty, Engineering Education, Epistemology
Thomas, Ruth; And Others – 1992
A study identified four principles, based on transfer of learning research and cognitive theory, for guiding curricular decisions, instructional development, and teaching practices in ways that support transferable learning. The principles were as follows: (1) emphasize intermediate-level knowledge in curricular decisions; (2) create in the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Educational Principles, Educational Research
Lynch, James – 1994
A case is presented to advance education on citizenship within the culturally diverse societies of the developing world. The neglect of a positive approach to citizenship education in the period surrounding decolonization may have contributed to the fact that so many developing nations find themselves with social, political, and economic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility
Rega, Bonney – 1993
Noting that linguistic and mathematical/logical are the two kinds of intelligences the educational system encourages and that the educational system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect, this paper describes Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory and Peter Kline's theory of integrative learning…
Descriptors: Advertising, Class Activities, College Students, Creative Activities
Bialystok, Ellen – 1988
An overview of current theories of reading and the acquisition of literacy skills by children is presented. A research framework in which reading can be described in terms of the processes employed in other language uses is introduced and used to explain the failure of some children to learn to read. An ongoing research program is described that…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education
Renne, Christine G. – 1992
The facets of teachers' views of mathematics include their personal views, how they view mathematics for their students, how they view the mathematics curriculum, and how they view mathematics teaching. This paper reports a pilot study to examine how elementary school teachers view mathematics both personally and for their students. A coding…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Beliefs, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures
Silverman, Robert J. – 1993
This paper uses an epistemological framework to address the nature of the interactions among authors and responders in professional journals in the context of how such dialog affects the "states-of-the arts." It articulates the rhetorical strategies in four logics-in-use relating to posited epistemological domains, as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Epistemology, Expository Writing, Higher Education
Morais, Ana; Neves, Isabel – 1991
Theories of learning and instruction usually are grounded in psychological and epistemological assumptions. However, these theories ignore the child in relation to his or her cultural and institutional context and ignore the schoolteacher from the social context that regulates the process of transmission and acquisition of knowledge and skills.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology
McLendon, Gloria Houston – 1983
Basic research into the mechanisms and functions of the brain carried out in the past 25 years has provided evidence that humans do, indeed, experience two ways of knowing. More recent research has explored the nature of the apparent perceptual bias--or way of knowing--of each brain hemisphere, and this information, which has changed thinking…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Collis, Kevin F. – 1982
Intended for elementary school language arts teachers, this paper outlines some recent work in the area of cognitive functioning and shows how this highlights the necessity for great care in fostering a child's language competence at two different stages: very early childhood and early to middle primary school. Following an introduction, the paper…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages