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Peer reviewedKincheloe, Joe L.; Steinberg, Shirley R. – Harvard Educational Review, 1993
Postformal thinking concerns questions of meaning and purpose, multiple perspectives, human dignity, freedom, and social responsibility. Curriculum and instruction based on postformalism involves detecting problems, uncovering hidden assumptions, seeing relationships, deconstructing, connecting logic and emotion, and attending to context. (SK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Developmental Psychology
