n and reflection on that experience, formation of abstract concepts based upon the reflection, and testing t... n and reflection on that experience, formation of abstract concepts based upon the reflection, and testing t... Reflecting (Reflective Observation) to Thinking (Abstract Conceptualization) to Acting (Active Experimentat... ive experimentation ↔ Reflective observation, and Abstract conceptualization ↔ Concrete experience, creating
plied to tangible, concrete materials rather than abstract hypotheticals. During the **formal operational st... ning — the ability to reason systematically about abstract propositions, to generate and test hypotheses, an... tations of infancy through its culmination in the abstract logical-mathematical structures of formal thought
d complex craft skills not through instruction in abstract principles but through structured participation i... claim is that learning is not the acquisition of abstract, decontextualised knowledge that can subsequently
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==== Play, Imagination, and the Development of Abstract Thought ====
In a line of thinking that intersec... lity, and thereby take the first steps toward the abstract, decontextualised thinking that will characterise
ptual thinking awakens and students are ready for abstract reasoning, independent judgment, and engagement w... nsions of the human being rather than privileging abstract intellectualism.
==== Threefold Social Organism
les from classical history and literature, not as abstract moral principles but as practical qualities that ... d as the first systematic English lexicography of abstract and technical concepts.
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