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ERIC Number: EJ313055
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Psychology and the Limitations of Individual Rationality: Implications for the Study of Reasoning and Civility.
Shulman, Lee S.; Carey, Neil B.
Review of Educational Research, v54 n4 p501-24 Win 1984
This paper analyzes the teaching of reasoning and civility (citizenship) from the historical perspective of psychology. Three perspectives of human rationality--humans as rational, boundedly rational, and collectively rational--have differently defined the learner, the task, the teacher, and educational research. Unwillingness to address humans as irrational has flawed education research. (BS)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Learning Theories, Personality Theories, Psychology, Research Methodology, Student Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Civility; Rationality
Note: Earlier draft of this paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (68th, New Orleans, LA, April 23-27, 1984).