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Jonassen, David H. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
Decision making is the most common kind of problem solving. It is also an important component skill in other more ill-structured and complex kinds of problem solving, including policy problems and design problems. There are different kinds of decisions, including choices, acceptances, evaluations, and constructions. After describing the centrality…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Decision Making, Thinking Skills, Affective Behavior
Moul, Caroline; Killcross, Simon; Dadds, Mark R. – Psychological Review, 2012
This article introduces a novel hypothesis regarding amygdala function in psychopathy. The first part of this article introduces the concept of psychopathy and describes the main cognitive and affective impairments demonstrated by this population; that is, a deficit in fear-recognition, lower conditioned fear responses and poor performance in…
Descriptors: Fear, Comparative Analysis, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Psychopathology
Woods, Charlotte – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
This article presents an original application of Q methodology in investigating the challenging arena of emotion in the Higher Education (HE) workplace. Q's strength lies in capturing holistic, subjective accounts of complex and contested phenomena but is unusual in employing a statistical procedure within an interpretivist framework. Here Q is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Data Analysis, Institutional Research
Wang, Victor C. X.; Cranton, Patricia – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2011
The theory of transformative learning has been explored by different theorists and scholars. However, few scholars have made an attempt to make a comparison between transformative learning and Confucianism or between transformative learning and andragogy. The authors of this article address these comparisons to develop new and different insights…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Reflection, Confucianism, Andragogy
Knox, Michele S.; Burkhart, Kimberly; Hunter, Kimberly E. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The ACT Against Violence Parents Raising Safe Kids program (ACT-PRSK) is an interactive violence prevention program developed by the American Psychological Association for parents of young children. The program teaches and supports parents in the areas of child development, roots and consequences of violence, anger management for adults and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Intervention, Family Violence, Child Abuse
Ruberg, Willemijn – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
The letters Bishop Edward Synge (1691-1762) wrote to his daughter Alicia (1733-1807) in 1747-1752 are discussed to show how correspondence from a father to a daughter could be used to teach a teenage girl how to spell and write letters. Moreover, these letters are an excellent source to show how emotional behaviour was taught. Instructions on…
Descriptors: Parents as Teachers, Fathers, Daughters, Womens Education
Schulz, Wolfram; Ainley, John – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of the "International Civic and Citizenship Education Study" (ICCS) is to investigate the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries. The study will report on student achievement on a test of conceptual understandings and competencies in civic and citizenship education. It will…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Takahashi, Keiko – Human Development, 2005
This article addresses how close relationships can be conceptualized so that they can be accurately understood over the life span. First, two typical clusters of theories of close relationships, the attachment theory and the social network theory, are compared and discussed with regard to their fundamental but controversial assumptions regarding…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Attachment Behavior, Adults, Models