Multicultural Education, a need for conceptual clarification

What are the assumptions of the multicultural education movement

Piaget: Experience and Cognitive Development

Piaget and his ideas on cognitive growth have direct relevance to the American educational situation

Moral Growth: Some Educational Implications

As a condition of moral education, each member of a school - including every student - has responsibility for involvement in the decision-making process. Decisions are to be made by consensus and not by majority, this author suggests. Given current school and power realities, his points are provocative

Piaget\u27s Theory of Conceptual Development as it Applies to the Teaching of Reading

This essay will investigate Piaget\u27 s theory of conceptual development as it applies to the teaching of reading. Piaget\u27 s views are important as a corrective to much of the behavioral approach to reading-using contingencies of reinforcement to aid students in learning (memorizing?) basic units of language and in remembering linguistic rules. It is obvious that one can remember such rules but not be able to apply them to a particular situation. We will discover that this is Piaget\u27 s main point in his criticism of behavorism

Developing a Philosophy of Reading: Piaget and Chomsky

As Piaget consistently acknowledges, all learning is an active process. Reading, then, is an activity, a proecess of confrontation between an individual and a text (3). For both Piaget and Chomsky, language is highly strcutured. In Chomsky\u27s terms, there is a linguistic relationship between the surface structure and the phonological aspects of language