Barbara Schecter
Biographic Data
| ID | 6487437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Schecter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Schecter |
| SIGNATURE | SCHECTER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sarah Lawrence College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Development as an Aim of Education”
Recently, the view that a concept of development should serve as a guiding principle for education has been seriously challenged by developmental psychologists as well as educators. Dewey’s vision of development and progressive education is at the heart of these controversies. This article discusses the place of Dewey’s thinking on these subjects, by first looking back at the changing ways his ideas have been incorporated into educational theory …
Developmental Relationships Between Psychological Metaphors and Concepts of Life and Consciousness
This study relates children's explications of psychological metaphors to their concepts of life and consciousness. Psychological metaphors refer to descriptions of people, such as "hard" and "soft" or "hard-headed" and "soft-hearted." The perspective guiding this study is that both specific content knowledge of relevant conceptual domains and metalinguistic ability are components of an explication of these types of metaphors. Semi-structured inte…
Development as an Aim of Education”
Recently, the view that a concept of development should serve as a guiding principle for education has been seriously challenged by developmental psychologists as well as educators. Dewey’s vision of development and progressive education is at the heart of these controversies. This article discusses the place of Dewey’s thinking on these subjects, by first looking back at the changing ways his ideas have been incorporated into educational theory …
Developmental Relationships Between Psychological Metaphors and Concepts of Life and Consciousness
This study relates children's explications of psychological metaphors to their concepts of life and consciousness. Psychological metaphors refer to descriptions of people, such as "hard" and "soft" or "hard-headed" and "soft-hearted." The perspective guiding this study is that both specific content knowledge of relevant conceptual domains and metalinguistic ability are components of an explication of these types of metaphors. Semi-structured inte…
Development as an Aim of Education”
Recently, the view that a concept of development should serve as a guiding principle for education has been seriously challenged by developmental psychologists as well as educators. Dewey’s vision of development and progressive education is at the heart of these controversies. This article discusses the place of Dewey’s thinking on these subjects, by first looking back at the changing ways his ideas have been incorporated into educational theory …
Epistemology (2 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work) · Concept learning (1 work) · Conceptual metaphor (1 work) · Consciousness (1 work) · Developmental psychology (1 work) · Education Methods and Practices (1 work) · Education theory (1 work)