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Heimlich, Joe E.; Horr, E. Elaine T. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
Environmental learning, or how individuals make sense and meaning about nature, the environment, ecology, and environmental issues, is best understood as lifelong, life-wide, and life-deep (Banks and others, 2007). Lifelong learning refers to acquisition of skills, competencies, attitudes, and knowledge over time; life-wide is learning across…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Ecology, Environmental Education
Gau, Roland – ProQuest LLC, 2009
An examination of research on expertise reveals potential gaps in current conceptualizations. Examinations of expertise often involve problems in ill-structured domains, which require abstract problem solving. Thus, conceptualizations of expertise are characterized by the use of relatively advanced, abstract problem-solving skills. Problems in…
Descriptors: Expertise, Problem Solving, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style
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Juul, Ida – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
Taking the point of departure in three different narratives concerning training as a cabinet maker, the article shows how the choice of a particular education is ascribed different significance, depending on the period and the individual's social background. In order to grasp the intersection between factors connected to the concepts of generation…
Descriptors: Educational History, Socioeconomic Background, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style