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ERIC Number: EJ376163
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Critical Thinking and the Perception of Aesthetic Form.
Dressel, Janice Hartwick
Language Arts, v65 n6 p567-72 Oct 1988
Maintains that our understanding of learning cannot be complete until we recognize the symbiotic relationship between cognitive and affective means of knowing. Asserts that in the development of critical thinking, aesthetic forms, perceived intuitively, become the criteria against which the child intellectually measures the "fit" of the component elements. (SR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Intuition, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Aesthetics; Affective Domain; Affective Learning; Affective Response; Cognitive Learning
Note: Themed Issue: Critical Literacy/Critical Thinking.