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Higher Education and the Preferable Choice of Distance Learning

summer school at no cost and so they instead prompt students to enroll in another facility for a nominal fee, or take an appropria...

Class and Gender of Paris Hilton

in that respect. Her connection to wealth and her ability to spend it put her in a social class that is not...

Social Learning and Aggression

hammers (plus scientific observers) (Boeree, 1998). The children beat the daylights out of the doll, hitting it, kicking it, sitt...

Ogbu and Delpit Article Analyses

and the multicultural education movement are two major factors in todays educational landscape. According to Ogbu, both of these m...

Curriculum Design and the Effects of the Learning Theory of Jean Piaget

can readily recognize how teaching reflects the combined components of open communication, creative instruction and critical think...

Paul E. Johnson's Sam Patch

known life without industrialization. At the same time he was a man who reflected the dreams and ideals and hopes of his people fo...

Gender and Media

it is also important to recognize the way common standards, including stereotyping and the creation of the double standard, have b...

Professional Context of Lifelong Learning

may not be enough to spark motivation or improve performance. Lifelong learning has been viewed as one way of defining motivation...

Character Traits Relating to Educational Readiness

variety of educational models that underscore learning as an element of individual nature as well as cultural and social variables...

Adult Identity and Learning

As a result, my understanding of my self as an adult learner is that I place a greater value on the educational experience than le...

Language Learning Instruments Assessment

data in an assessment process. According to Greenhalgh (1997), reliability and validity begin with an explicit statement of the s...

Children With Learning Disabilities and Failure Statistics' Data Collection

that the process of evaluating the subjects and providing for questionnaire responses is an element of consideration in evaluating...

Learning Organizations and Cisco Systems

employees found that ? The company used a legacy PC-based test system less sophisticated than Ciscos Autotest system ? Summa Fours...

Questions Answered About Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory

motivated to repeat it (motivation) (Boeree, 1998). Can the theory explain new things? Yes, very easily. Since Bandura has sh...

An Article on Higher Learning Curriculum Critiqued

that multicultural education should include the "religious and spiritually based concepts of reality" that are fundamental to othe...

Lessons Learned From The Napoleonic Era

who realized the importance of artillery they paved the way for artillery to become a major factor on the battleground and give ri...

The Fifth Discipline and the Learning Organization

those organizations that are readily adaptive, flexible and productive will excel and perhaps even be able to survive. To make th...

Self Directed Learners' Characteristics

need for self-esteem, a desire to achieve, and the satisfaction that will come from accomplishing something" (Hiemstra and Judd, 1...

Zoo Visits and Changing Attitudes of Children

with some of its most enjoyable elements of entertainment, all at the cost of the animals life. A staple of Americana, the ...

Analyzing the Film Educating Rita

for Rita. The result is that not only does Frank tutor Rita, but Franks learns from Rita as well. Initially Rita is portrayed as...

Auditing Systems and the Scandal of Lincoln Savings and Loan

in the Garcia-Wescon sham in which Wescon acquired land at nearly twice its appraised value on behalf of E.C. Garcia and Company. ...

Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

hard, all you need to do is to set stretching goals." But recent studies in motivation in the workplace suggest that simply setti...

Understanding the Disabled and Disabilities

beauty, wealth and status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that people would just as soon forget, such as with physical d...

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Man of the Hill

he were truly the evil person hes believed to be. In the Man of the Hill we can see glimpses of Tom as he would have been if hed...

How to Teach Children Organizational Skills: A Workshop

Children benefit a great deal from having both structure and order in their lives (Scarbro, 2004). They gain a sense of security (...

Online Learning Effectiveness

A pamphlet originally published in 1949 titled How to Study Physics encourages learners to continue to learn. The 1955 edition ex...

Examining the Truth of a Proverb - Children Learn Prejudice, It Is Not Inborn

up to possess their parents values. Or a research may address what kind of negative events in ones life affected their prejudices....

Contemporary Lessons Taught by 16th Century St. Teresa of Avila

prayer and, ultimately, began to experience visions. During those visions she was outwardly the same but inwardly she was filed w...

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and the Journey of the Narrator

to help us answer that question of his growth. The book is a perennial best seller, and most people can name the episodes that co...

Ancient Empires Collapse

of the Fifth Dynasty, Userkhaf (2465-2458 BC) "initiated reforms that weakened the Pharaoh and central government. After his reign...