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The Development of an Adolescent Perception of Being Known Measure
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Wallace, Tanner LeBaron; Ye, Feifei; McHugh, Rebecca; Chhuon, Vichet – High School Journal, 2012
Adopting a constructivist perspective of adolescent development, we argue adolescents' perceptions of "being known" reflect teachers' authentic recognition of adolescents' multiple emerging identities. As such, adolescent perceptions of being known are a distinct factor associated with high school students' engagement in school. A mixed…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Constructivism (Learning), Focus Groups, Predictive Validity
Children, Objects, and Relations: Constructivist Foundations in the Reggio Emilia Approach
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Swann, Annette C. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2008
This article examines how children's construction of relationships in exploring materials helps to explain the constructivist foundations of the Reggio Emilia approach. A quasi-naturalistic study of 12 preschool children, ages 3 and 4 years, individually exploring different kinds of collage papers reveals a range of constructivist categories…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Preschool Children, Reggio Emilia Approach, Art Education
Making Sense of Infant Categorization: Stable Processes and Changing Representations.
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Madole, Kelly L.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Review, 1999
Demonstrates the need for a process-oriented, constructivist approach to understanding infants' categorization abilities. Suggests that emphasizing the distinction between perceptual and conceptual categorization has been an obstacle to forging an approach. Proposes a more microanalytic consideration of features available to infants at different…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Wholetheme Constructivism and Whole-Brain Education: Educational Implications of the Research on Left and Right Brain Hemispheres.
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Saleh, Amany; Iran-Nejad, Asghar – 1995
The left side of the brain has been said to process speech along with logical, rational, convergent, objective, and sequential tasks. The right side of the brain is thought to process nonverbal, spatial, musical, and analogical information. This paper discusses the research on brain hemisphericity from the perspectives of traditional and…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Constructivism (Learning), Cultural Influences
Constructivism, Optimality Theory and Language Acquisition. The Shapes We Make in Each Other's Heads.
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Whincop, Chris – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This paper identifies a feature of human brain neural nets that may be described as the principle of ease of processing (PEP), and that, it is argued, is the primary force guiding a learner towards a target grammar. It is suggested that the same principle lies at the heart of Optimality Theory, which characterizes the course of language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Grammar
The Cradle of Knowledge: Development of Perception in Infancy.
Kellman, Philip J.; Arterberry, Martha E. – 1998
In the past 25 years, there has been an explosion in research on the development of perception. The research has produced discoveries at multiple levels: ecological analyses, models of representation and process, and improved understanding of biological mechanisms. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of infant perception, bringing…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Biological Influences, Child Development, Cognitive Development