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Phillips, Christine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Leadership has been designated a talent area in federal and state definitions of gifted students who require differentiated programs since the Marland Report came out in 1972, yet it remains the least discussed of the curricular areas for gifted students. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions and attitudes of administrators of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Administrator Attitudes, Leadership, Academically Gifted
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Lamb, Diane J.; Middeldorp, Christel M.; van Beijsterveldt, Catarina E. M.; Bartels, Meike; van der Aa, Niels; Polderman, Tinca J. C.; Boomsma, Dorret I. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: To explain the differential course of anxiety and depression in individuals from childhood to adulthood by examining age-related changes in the genetic and environmental etiology of anxious and depressive symptoms. Method: A sample of 1470, 1839, and 2023 Dutch twins aged 12, 14, and 16 years reported on symptoms of anxious depression…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Nature Nurture Controversy, Risk, Children
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Kruger, Meta L. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2008
The biological basis for differences between the sexes has become increasingly clear in recent years. The nature-nurture debate has made way for the view that the individual is a product of the interaction between genes and environment. For the world of school leadership this means that instead of arguing about them, we should acknowledge the…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Principals, Gender Differences, Socialization
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Castelli, Luigi; Zogmaister, Cristina; Tomelleri, Silvia – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Previous literature based on self-report measures has not found a clear relationship between the ethnic attitudes of White parents and those of their children. In particular, no study has evidenced such a relationship in the case of preschool children. In the present study, the authors measured parents' implicit and explicit racial attitudes as…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Preschool Children, Family Attitudes, Family Characteristics
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Price, Thomas S.; Jaffee, Sara R. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The classical twin study provides a useful resource for testing hypotheses about how the family environment influences children's development, including how genes can influence sensitivity to environmental effects. However, existing statistical models do not account for the possibility that children can inherit exposure to family environments…
Descriptors: Twins, Interaction, Verbal Ability, Family Environment
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Silcock, Peter – Education 3-13, 2008
The various ways "nature" and "nurture" interact to shape school pupils' lives are examined from the perspective of recent biologically informed studies. The idea of a highly predictive, genetically based inheritance is strikingly upheld by research in infancy and early childhood. Research evidence also shows how pupil…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Students, Individual Development, Primary Education
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Rennie, Scott – Journal of Environmental Education, 2008
From its inception, environmental education (EE) has shouldered the imposition of impartiality on its methods and practices. Considering the reality of global climate change, the author urges the adoption of the more accurate theory of humans' relation to the natural world. This theory necessitates partiality toward healthy, functioning natural…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Nature Nurture Controversy, Advocacy
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Valsiner, Jaan – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Gilbert Gottlieb's theory of probabilistic epigenesis is a fertile ground for further theoretical construction in developmental science. It fills the gap in the domineering empiricism and honoring of inductive generalization that dominates psychology in the beginning of the 21st century, by offering a basic deductive framework for guiding the…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Genetics, Developmental Psychology, Causal Models
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Nilan, Pam – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
This paper examines aspects of the school-to-work transition process for high-achieving indigenous Fijian young women using selective data from a wider study of school-to-work transitions conducted in 2005. It appears that traditional and colonial understandings of the role of Fijian women still shape even high-achieving girls' career and life…
Descriptors: Females, Career Choice, Education Work Relationship, Indigenous Populations
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Lykken, David T. – American Psychologist, 2007
Comments on the article by E. Diener, R. E. Lucas, and C. N. Scollon (see record 2006-05893-003) which cited a study by Tellegen et al. in which the Well-Being scale of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), administered to 44 pairs of monozygotic reared-apart (MZA) twins, yielded a within-pair correlation of 0.48. I contend that,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Self Concept, Quality of Life, Twins
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Savoie, Alain – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2009
Fine arts teachers' concerns about male underachievement in a Quebec coeducational high school, and a related survey showing boys' negative perceptions of fine arts motivated this interdisciplinary literature review. Referring to biology and cognitive science, the article explores concepts of sex-related cognitive traits to help in designing…
Descriptors: Males, Cognitive Style, Fine Arts, Coeducation
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Crain, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2008
Child and adult speakers of English have different ideas of what "or" means in ordinary statements of the form "A or B". Even more far-reaching differences between children and adults are found in other languages. This tells us that young children do not learn what "or" means by watching how adults use "or". An alternative is to suppose that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Research, Semantics, Child Language
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Scheithauer, Herbert; Niebank, Kay; Gottlieb, Gilbert – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
The aim of Developmental Science is to understand the complex interacting biopsychosocial mechanisms in the development of living organisms. Thus, Developmental Science has roots in both the biological and social disciplines and can bee seen as a meta-theory rooted in developmental principles to guide work and thinking on biology and social…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Biology, Social Sciences, Social Behavior
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Matricano, Diego – Industry and Higher Education, 2009
This article responds to "Laboratory experiments as a tool in the empirical economic analysis of high-expectation start-ups" by Martin Curley and Piero Formica, published in the December 2008 issue of "Industry and Higher Education." The exploitation of knowledge and experience is increasingly important to companies operating in the globalized…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Business Relationship, Entrepreneurship, Attitudes
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Mack, Wolfgang – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Some arguments are presented why Developmental Science should be seen as integrative part of a general anthropology. This is the reason that developmental science is a boundary opening framework for anthropology, history, cultural sciences and philosophy. The relation between a more culturalistic and naturalistic orientation of developmental…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Anthropology, Natural Sciences, Individual Development
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