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ERIC Number: EJ382956
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Thinking and Its Contexts.
Parker, Walter C.
Social Education, v52 n7 p495-99 Nov-Dec 1988
Asks how intellectual development is tied to social setting. Considers this question from three perspectives: republican, cognitive developmental, and historical-materialists. Concludes that each recognizes that thinking is a product of social conditions. Discusses the importance for social studies education in terms of content and classroom/community relations. (KO)
Descriptors: Background, Cognitive Development, Community Relations, Elementary Secondary Education, Environment, Individual Differences, Intellectual Development, Nature Nurture Controversy, Social Differences, Social Influences, Student Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - General; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Bellah (Robert); Habits of the Heart; Historical Materialism; Kohlberg (Lawrence); Luria (Alexander); Madison (James); Republican Theory; Tocqueville (Alexis de)