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Bramhall, Michael D.; Gray, Linda; Corker, Chris; Garnett, Kenisha; Hill, Richard – Industry and Higher Education, 2012
UK educators often express concerns that students from some cultural backgrounds frequently seem unwilling or are unable to apply critical thinking skills within their academic programmes. This may be due not to a lack of ability or confidence but rather to the way they have been previously taught and assessed. Often, the design of UK courses…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Evidence, Student Attitudes, Engineering
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Galende, Nuria; de Miguel, Manuel Sanchez; Arranz, Enrique – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The aim of this study was to analyse the relation between parents' distancing strategies and the performance of five-year-old children (N = 70) in Theory of Mind (ToM) tasks. The children's performances were assessed during individual sessions held at school. The distancing strategies practiced by the parents (cognitive and linguistic scaffolding,…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Prosocial Behavior, Observation, Family Environment
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Hansen, David T. – Education and Culture, 2009
Many people rightly consider John Dewey a distinctively American thinker. He was born into a time-honored New England culture. He was educated in American schools. He lived and worked virtually his entire life in the United States. He had a lifelong respect for American traditions in poetry, literature, philosophy, and more. He was active in…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Progressive Education, Pragmatics, Federal Legislation
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McNeill, William H. – Liberal Education, 2011
In this article, the author shares his experiences in his undergraduate years and how he was influenced by his professors regarding human history. The author believes that social change very often arose from encounters with strangers who possessed some obviously superior skill or knowledge that locals could borrow and adjust to their own use. His…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Archaeology, Social Change, Social History
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Maria, Maya; Zuhairi, Aminudin; Riana, Kurnia Endah; Ginting, Ginta – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
The purpose of the research was to analyse students' behaviour in choosing a distance learning program at Universitas Terbuka (UT), Indonesia, using the theory of planned behaviour model developed by Fishbein and Ajzen (1975). The respondents of the research were 102 students from 3 Regional Offices of Jakarta, Malang and Kupang, representing…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Prior Learning, Foreign Countries, Decision Making
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Sayfan, Liat; Blattman, Amanda J. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Four- to 9-year-olds and adults (N = 256) viewed a series of pictures that were covered with occluders to reveal nondescript or identifiable parts. Participants predicted how 3 characters, 1 who had previously viewed the full picture and 2 who had not, would interpret the obstructed drawings. Results showed significant development between 4 and 9…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Short Term Memory, Young Children, Children
Diamond, James – ProQuest LLC, 2012
"Historical empathy" connotes "perspective taking-in-historical-context," or explaining the intentions that motivated behavior within a framework of beliefs, values, and institutions, among other factors, as they existed at some time and in some place, rather than through contemporary norms and perspectives. As a construct,…
Descriptors: Games, History, Empathy, Perspective Taking
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Persson, Roland S. – Gifted and Talented International, 2012
The objective of this target article is to chart the potential threat to research validity in the field of giftedness research, and by implication also the study and practice of gifted education, in the light of cultural bias. It endeavours to pull together facts from a number of academic disciplines to make sense of how culture relates to…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Global Approach, Cultural Relevance, Research Methodology
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Flynn, Emma; Whiten, Andrew – Child Development, 2012
In one of the first open diffusion experiments with young children, a tool-use task that afforded multiple methods to extract an enclosed reward and a child model habitually using one of these methods were introduced into different playgroups. Eighty-eight children, ranging in age from 2 years 8 months to 4 years 5 months, participated. Measures…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Socialization, Young Children, Verbal Ability
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Bradbury, Kelly S. – Community Literacy Journal, 2012
At a time when accusations of American ignorance and anti-intellectualism are ubiquitous, this article challenges problematic assumptions about intellectualism that overlook the work of adult basic literacy programs and proposes an expanded view of intellectualism. It is important to recognize and to challenge narrow views of intellectualism…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Intellectual Development, Intellectual Experience, Intelligence
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Thorsteinsson, Gisli – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2013
Running Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) classes using Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) has become a high priority project for many educational institutions, as it offers opportunities for online education and support for conventional education. However, acquiring and deploying a VLE is a difficult task that concerns teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Responsibility, Theory of Mind, Virtual Classrooms
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Luo, Wen-Hsing – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study attempts to explore the nature and the potential of various discourse structures and linguistic functions that may facilitate students' learning in English classes co-taught by a native English-speaking teacher (NEST) and a local English teacher in Taiwanese elementary schools. Considering the nature of the study, the author employed a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Discourse Analysis
Marques, Susana C.; Lopez, Shane J. – Communique, 2011
This article begins with a 12-year-old girl's story that serves as an example of how "caring coaches" in the schools contribute greatly in helping schools become hopeful places for children. Helping students become more hopeful is rewarding for the students, teachers, school psychologists, counselors, parents, and other caring adults. Twenty years…
Descriptors: Caring, School Psychologists, Motivation, Achievement Need
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McNair, Delores E. – New Directions for Student Services, 2011
Self-authorship, as described by Baxter Magolda (2008), is about trusting ourselves (our internal voice), rather than relying on external voices to guide our lives. Young professionals attempt to navigate new experiences based on prior knowledge and begin to distinguish what others tell them from what they believe and value on their own. The path…
Descriptors: Supervision, Philosophy, Administrative Principles, Supervisory Methods
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Sharp, Carla; Pane, Heather; Ha, Carolyn; Venta, Amanda; Patel, Amee B.; Sturek, Jennifer; Fonagy, Peter – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011
Objective: Dysfunctions in both emotion regulation and social cognition (understanding behavior in mental state terms, theory of mind or mentalizing) have been proposed as explanations for disturbances of interpersonal behavior in borderline personality disorder (BPD). This study aimed to examine mentalizing in adolescents with emerging BPD from a…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Personality Problems, Psychopathology, Social Cognition
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