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Peer reviewedNorton, David L. – School Review, 1973
Author argues that the most important thing you can teach students is what they know already. With Socrates, he believes that maieutic, "midwifery," has an essential place in good teaching. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Knowledge Level, Learning Experience, Philosophy
Peer reviewedBruker, Robert M. – Clearing House, 1973
Considered the need for effective conservation and outlined the development of conservation organizations and programs. (RK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conservation Education, Ecology, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedSoderberg, Wes – School Arts, 1974
Author felt it necessary to develop a sequential unit which made the students aware of design fundamentals as a tool for development of idea concepts. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Art Appreciation, Concept Formation, Creative Expression, Design Crafts
Peer reviewedDay, Michael – Art Education, 1974
An initial portion of this paper discussed instructional stages, the content of art learning, and a conception of the teaching-learning situation that interrelates instruction and evaluation. Author also described several classroom situations and indicated how evaluation might contribute to improved instruction. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Classroom Communication, Concept Formation, Content Analysis
Peer reviewedPishkin, Vladimir; Willis, Diane J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1974
This study uses a concept identification task composed of geometric figures to compare male and female kindergarten, first- and second-grade, lower class and middle class children on concept identification performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Disadvantaged, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedBruce, A. Jerry – Developmental Psychology, 1974
The ability of 4th, 6th, and 8th graders to use structures inherent in a list of permuted symbols, defined in terms of Piagetian theory, was investigated. Age differences were noted. Results supported the theoretical notion that environmental event structure facilitates learning. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students
Peer reviewedKlatzky, Roberta L.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Investigates whether the asymmetry in children's acquisition of polar adjective pairs is based on linguistic factors related to differences in adult usage and frequency or on an underlying conceptual difference. Results suggest acquisition is based on an underlying conceptual asymmetry. (DP)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedO'Brien, James P. – Music Educators Journal, 1973
Article recommends imitating the logic and drama of a stage play and combining a variety of stimulating activities in a single thirty-minute period as one would expect to find in a good television play. The teacher would then stir creative thought within a motivating structure. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Creativity, Elementary Schools, Lesson Plans
Peer reviewedRedfering, David L. – Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1973
The current study is a one-year follow-up of an earlier report that group counseling with institutionalized delinquent females resulted in significant gains in the connotative meanings of several concepts. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Delinquency, Females, Followup Studies
Peer reviewedYoung, Michael F. D. – Educational Review, 1973
The occasion of this paper is to focus several concerns of the writer, such as conceptions of the sociology of knowledge and teachers' and sociologists' predicaments. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Cultural Influences, Educational Sociology, Evaluative Thinking
Peer reviewedMaxwell, Martha J. – Reading World, 1973
Describes the results of a preliminary investigation of skapa, a simple, three-step procedure for analyzing cognitive aspects of skimming and speed reading. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Concept Formation, Educational Philosophy, Literacy
Day, Harry P. – Adult Leadership, 1973
Author addresses the problem of describing the meaning of continuing education at a seminar in American Studies, an intellectual encounter of Europeans and Americans. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Studies, Concept Formation, Educational Change
Peer reviewedJessup, Frank – Studies in Adult Education, 1973
Examines the development of the concept of permanent education in Europe and the implications it can have for the rest of the world. (RK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Conferences, Educational Change, Educational Development
Peer reviewedFodor, John T. – Journal of School Health, 1973
Stress is placed here on developing concepts or big ideas and behavioral objectives or measurable objectives as a means of structuring or ordering bodies of knowledge relative to venereal education. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Communicable Diseases, Concept Formation, Course Objectives
Peer reviewedBowers, John; Fisher, E. A. – Convergence, 1972
A classification system for educational statistics, the International Standard Classification of Education, was created to compare statistics on adult education. However, it is necessary to untangle the terminology associated with adult education in order to utilize ISCED. Authors attempt to restate and refine terms and concepts for that purpose.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Concept Formation, Definitions, Educational Planning


