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Cosgriff, Marg – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2011
The "greening" of outdoor education has received increasing attention from educators in Aotearoa-New Zealand and internationally. Given contemporary global concerns about the scale of environmental issues and the associated recognition that educating for sustainability is a matter of urgency, the continuing exploration of pedagogies…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Females, Foreign Countries, Womens Studies
Wardle, Francis – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2009
In this article, the author describes his granddaughter Elly (Elysia), who is just over a year old. While he deeply enjoys her company as a granddaughter--after all, her favorite activity is to pull his graying beard--as an instructor of child psychology, both for early childhood and psychology students, the author is fascinated with observing…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Grandchildren, Rewards, Child Psychology
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Stables, Andrew – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2009
From a cultural-historical perspective, nature and nurture (and thus education) are contested concepts. The paper focuses on the nature/nurture debate in the work of William Shakespeare (influenced by Montaigne) and in the Romantic tradition (evidenced by Rousseau and Wordsworth), and argues that while our Romantic inheritance (still highly…
Descriptors: Nature Nurture Controversy, Environmental Influences, Romanticism, Educational Philosophy
Healy, Jane M. – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
Whereas some four year olds could draw a person with five fingers on each hand and a full set of facial features, others could barely hold a pencil. Some sat quietly in a small group, intently listening to and understanding a story, while others wiggled, fidgeted, and couldn't focus their attention. In those days, before the explosion of…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Neuropsychology, Nature Nurture Controversy, Developmental Psychology
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Chitty, Clyde – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
This article is based on a talk that was given by the author at the Institute of Historical Research on 3 February 2011, on the Victorian polymath Francis Galton and the malign legacy of his eugenic theories. It pays tribute to the pioneering work of the late Brian Simon in challenging the whole idea of "fixed innate intelligence" and in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Genetics, Selection, Racial Attitudes
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Fancher, Raymond E. – American Psychologist, 2009
This article traces the personal as well as the intellectual and scientific relationship between Charles Darwin and his younger half-cousin Francis Galton. Although they had been on friendly terms as young men, and Darwin had in some ways been a role model for Galton, the two did not share major scientific interests until after the publication of…
Descriptors: Evolution, Intelligence Tests, Genetics, Social Theories
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Davidoff, Jules; Goldstein, Julie; Roberson, Debi – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
We respond to the commentary of Franklin, Wright, and Davies ("Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102", 239-245 [2009]) by returning to the simple contrast between nature and nurture. We find no evidence from the toddler data that makes us revise our ideas that color categories are learned and never innate. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Nature Nurture Controversy, Toddlers, Color
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van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Pannebakker, Fieke; Out, Dorothee – Journal of Moral Education, 2010
In this paper we argue that moral behaviour is largely situation-specific. Genetic make-up, neurobiological factors, attachment security and rearing experiences have only limited influence on individual differences in moral performance. Moral behaviour does not develop in a linear and cumulative fashion and individual morality is not stable across…
Descriptors: Moral Issues, Moral Values, Empathy, Altruism
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DeLisi, Matt; Wright, John Paul; Vaughn, Michael G.; Beaver, Kevin M. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2010
Recognition of the interplay between nature and nurture is decades old in fields such as psychiatry, but other fields in the social sciences continue to be hampered by the idea that social and biological variables compete for explanatory relevance. In a recent study of the adolescent brain and risk taking, Males critiqued biologically oriented…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Adolescents
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Kan, Daniel B.; Reichard, Rebecca J. – Educational Considerations, 2009
With the success of graduates directly influencing the college's reputation and ranking, leadership propensity should be an important selection criterion in higher education institution's undergraduate admissions processes, but is it? For most colleges and universities, selection is done through a paper application containing only a sliver of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership, Aptitude, Admission Criteria
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Bond, Vanessa L. – Contributions to Music Education, 2011
Environmental factors play a role in musical development, particularly in the critical period of early childhood. Children have the capacity to learn in the first days of life, long before entering formal schooling. Music education during this period is consequently the responsibility of parents, caregivers, and early childhood teachers. These…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Early Childhood Education, Music Education, Literature Reviews
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Kritt, David W. – Democracy & Education, 2011
In response to Eugene Matusov's article in this journal, Kritt addresses assumptions of the large-scale testing central to NCLB. Discussion of studies of urban kindergarten children that examine cognitive variability, including the assertion of ability, focuses on how this affects the student as a learner, as well as as a teacher. In contrast,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Politics of Education, Educational Assessment, Testing
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
The connection that critics make between medical genetics and eugenics is historically fallacious. Activists on the political right are as mistaken as activists on the political left: Genetic screening was not eugenics in the past, is not eugenics in the present, and, unless its technological systems become radically transformed, will not be…
Descriptors: Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy, Diagnostic Tests, Screening Tests
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Ruthsatz, Joanne; Detterman, Douglas; Griscom, William S.; Cirullo, Britney A. – Intelligence, 2008
Previous research has supported the theory that acquisition of expertise in any domain is possible for healthy individuals with sufficient deliberate practice, but such an extreme environmental position brings the existence of innate talent into question. The present study investigates the effects of both environmental factors and talent on expert…
Descriptors: Music, Music Activities, Musicians, Drills (Practice)
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van Leeuwen, Marieke; van den Berg, Stephanie M.; Boomsma, Dorret I. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
In this paper we assess the presence of assortative mating, gene-environment interaction and the heritability of intelligence in childhood using a twin family design with twins, their siblings and parents from 112 families. We evaluate two competing hypotheses about the cause of assortative mating in intelligence: social homogamy and phenotypic…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Twins, Intelligence Quotient, Genetics
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