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Download full textBeatty, Brenda Ruth – 2002
This conceptual framework is grounded in the data analysis of transcribed interviews with 50 Ontario teachers and the text of a 7-month online discussion group among 25 principals from England, Ireland, Canada, United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Both methods were employed with the stated purpose of understanding emotional experiences of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
Peer reviewedArcavi, Abraham; Schoenfeld, Alan H. – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 1992
Discusses dilemmas teachers may face when shifting their concept of teaching or tutoring from explaining or telling to a constructivist perspective of facilitating the development of students' knowledge structures. Examines teachers' decisions during a 20-minute segment of dialogue between a student and teacher while studying linear functions. (14…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Constructivism (Learning)
McGinnis, J. Randy – 1992
This study qualitatively investigates the taboo and "noa" topics of Science-Technology-Society (STS) taught in two local cultures. Taboos are beliefs that constrain behavior by making those behaviors perceived as threatening by the members of the social group forbidden and improper for discussion. "Noa" is the Polynesian word…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Structures, Constructivism (Learning), Cultural Context
