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Schneider, Carol Geary – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
Liberal education has been, since the creation of the republic, America's "signature" higher learning curriculum. There have been three enduring purposes for a liberal education: (1) developing the powers of the mind; (2) cultivating an examined sense of responsibility to self and others; and (3) acquiring empowering knowledge--the kind…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, General Education, Higher Education, Student Development
Rose, Mike – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
In this essay the author argues that today's resurgent focus on noncognitive skills, especially for low-income students, may unfairly mask cognitive deficiencies and work to relieve our society of its duty, at which we are currently failing, to help low-income children improve their lives by improving their cognitive skills. The author points to a…
Descriptors: Values Education, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Student Development
Miller, Andrew – English in Australia, 2013
How might a tertiary English teacher use Garth Boomer's ideas on "teaching against the grain" to challenge the rules and assumptions that dominate the Academic Language and Learning (ALL) industry in the university sector today? How might such a teacher use Boomer's ideas to enact "emancipatory pedagogies" (or something like…
Descriptors: English Teachers, English Instruction, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
Thomason, Rhonda – Teaching Tolerance, 2008
Educators--and parents and politicians and others--say children are their future. They say that they want students to think critically, that they want them to be problem-solvers, to ask questions, to challenge educators to make the world a better place. And yet, the author sees educators set aside these high aspirations and silenced by the fear of…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Public Education, Thinking Skills, Ideology
Tanyu, Manolya – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2007
Zins and his colleagues pointed out that understanding implementation of school-based prevention programs is a critical issue as we get more sophisticated about strategies to promote children's social and emotional skill development. This commentary discusses school-based program implementation, challenges, lessons learned, and future directions…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Program Implementation, Prevention, Emotional Development
Henke, Karen Greenwood – Technology & Learning, 2007
Graduating students who can compete in the digital age is imperative but remains an uphill battle in the absence of a strong national technology policy, empowered education leadership, and ongoing dialogue involving business, community, government, and educators. Meantime, in pockets around the country, some states, districts, and schools are…
Descriptors: State Standards, Curriculum Development, Technological Literacy, Education Work Relationship

Sternberg, Robert J. – Instructional Science, 1998
Argues primarily that metacognition is an important part of human abilities, which are, in turn, forms of developing expertise. If the goal is to understand the basis of individual differences in student academic success, metacognition needs to be understood as representing part of the abilities that lead to student expertise, but only as part.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences

Yager, Robert E. – Journal of School Improvement, 2000
States that students often enter college with few problem-solving skills. Urges colleges to offer appropriate skills-building courses to students as well as to school personnel, since they will be counseling students on financial aid and other issues. Asserts that, by integrating problem-solving skills into the curriculum, students will be better…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Role, Curriculum Development
Martin, Peter B. – 2000
With the increase in violence over the past few decades, academic and human development practitioners have tried to better understand the dynamics of conflict and develop effective intervention and prevention strategies. There is an ever-deepening appreciation for the mediation process. The mediation process is a powerful problem-solving and…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Counselor Educators, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education
Seidel, Kent – Teaching Theatre, 1996
States that recent research suggests that an education in theater beginning in kindergarten and continuing throughout the educational process can teach students valuable skills that will serve them well in the professional world, including problem solving, team work, and decision making. Discusses the program at Jefferson High School and its…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Leadership
Greenland, Roy; Polloway, Edward A. – 1994
Students with disabilities often experience particular difficulties with handwriting, and these problems can hinder their development both in school and in postsecondary settings. This paper addresses three issues: (1) the possibility of a prejudicial and potentially lasting first impression, based on the individual's handwriting; (2) the lack of…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Handwriting
Schmidtbauer, M. E. G. – Campus Activities Programming, 1987
Students who volunteer for student activities work gain a number of valuable skills through their participation. These skills can be turned into marketable ones that will aid student volunteers in finding paying jobs. (MLW)
Descriptors: Careers, College Students, Employment, Extracurricular Activities
Watkins, J. Foster – Online Submission, 1994
A community college president brought a student affairs background with him as he assumed his first presidency. That perspective was an influencing factor in the organizational development initiatives at the institution in the first decade of his service. In this submission to the "Community College Times," he develops the position that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Presidents, Student Personnel Services, Skill Development

Brown, Peter C. – Liberal Education, 1994
The liberal arts develop the basic intellectual competencies necessary for leadership in modern society and, as highly reflective disciplines, also develop integrative thinking. In addition, a caring and committed undergraduate campus community offers a wealth of practical experience in exercising responsible leadership. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Role, Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Leadership Training
Lustie, Suzanne – 1992
There is a need to expand the notion of acceptable thinking practices to include nontraditional thinking and wonder. Such an approach can help students learn to deal with ambiguity. The unique design of ambiguous thought evokes wonder, discovery, interrelationships, and new connections. Ambiguous thinking refrains from making unequivocal…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Critical Thinking, Discovery Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique)