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| Gentile, J. Ronald | 1 |
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Peer reviewedGentile, J. Ronald – Educational Researcher, 1996
Responds to A. L. Brown's 1994 assertion that behaviorism and most learning and developmental research impede theoretical progress and negatively affect educational practice. The author first discusses how Brown inappropriately uses the most outlandish research and practice in the behaviorist tradition as an excuse to reject behaviorism outright,…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Research
Peer reviewedConfrey, Jere – Educational Researcher, 1991
Reviews "Soviet Studies in Mathematics Education: Volume 2. Types of Generalization in Instruction" (V. V. Davydov, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1990), which is useful for educational researchers because its major theory of dialectical materialism offers a view of knowledge with a significant role for activities that…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Books, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation


