Modernization theory predicts that rising education should increase assortative mating by education and decrease sorting by race. Recent research suggests that effects of educational expansion depend on contextual factors, such as economic development. Using log-linear and log-multiplicative models of male household heads ages 36 to 75 in the 1940 U.S. census data--the first U.S. census with ed...

In the fast-growing world of translation studies, many students may not receive adequate training at universities. A new multi-facetted approach is therefore needed to be applied in translator educational programs to meet the students’ needs and professional expectations. In order to describe the complex interrelations in translator education systems and propose a research framework that takes ...

the purpose of this study is deconstruction the concept of “individual differences” to achieve educational justice and critique of its implications from habermas's reconstruction approach. to achieve this purpose, approches of deconstruction and reconstruction is used. the findings from deconstruction showed that common understanding of this concept has ideological goals, including legalization...

How long has it been since you last mis placed your car in a large parking lot? Or had difficulty finding the elevators in an unfamiliar building after visiting an office? Or found your self lost in a new city even though you had a map? A growing number of urban planners, geographers, and psychologists claim that what these experiences have in common is the fact that knowing where you are requi...

telligence was conceived in the last two decades of the 20th century: Frames of Mind, Gardner (1983); Beyond IQ, Sternberg (1985); The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray (1994); and Emotional Intelligence, Goleman (1995). Gardner’s book, the first of them all, did not cause any particular stir on its publication, and remained discreetly in the background. That of Sternberg raised some dust due t...

In this review, we discuss the historic evolution of ADHD research up until the present, and explain the actual theoretical models of writing in relation to ADHD and attention. Given the characterization of writing as a recursive process, and in order to show its relationship with attention disorders, examples of applicable writing models are also described. These models contribute to a far bet...

The past decade has seen major advances in cognitive, affective and social neuroscience that have the potential to revolutionize educational theories about learning. The importance of emotion and social learning has long been recognized in education, but due to technological limitations in neuroscience research techniques, treatment of these topics in educational theory has largely not had the ...

Improving the public's understanding of statistical information requires that producers or reporters of statistical messages are aware of: The nature of people's statistics literacy, The factors that affect the difficulty of statistics-related messages, The existence of individual or group differences in statistics literacy; and The information needs of different target audiences. Implications ...

David C. Geary’s thesis has the potential to alter our understanding of those aspects of human cognition relevant to instruction. His distinction between biologically primary knowledge that we have evolved to acquire and biologically secondary knowledge that is culturally important, taught in educational institutions and which we have not evolved to acquire in modular form, is critical to instr...