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Education and Constructivism

which an individual learns and knows things, such as: * Knowing comes from the active and proactive nature of learners actions (Ho...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Adult Education Curriculum Defined

The contents will also need to be put together according to the needs of the class that is being taught. There has also been evide...

Terrorism and the Policy of the United States

diligent effort to address the problems in troubled areas such as Afghanistan and Columbia we increase our chances of gaining a de...

Learning Differences Between Adolescents and Adults

behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...

Learning Theories of Vygotsky and Piaget

some concrete ideas in his mind as to how things work. When a new idea is introduced such as our example of learning how to open ...

Adult Education, College Instruction, and Electronic Learning

back before the first microcomputer was released during the late 1970s. It, in fact, goes all the way back to 1957, when Sputnick,...

Classroom Management and Cooperative Learning

time to teach students the necessary social and personal interaction skills will reap great benefits in the classroom in many ways...

Andrew Cherlin's Introduction to Public and Private Families

we spend most of our personal lives, it is within this context that we make decisions about personal concerns, like whether to mar...

Cochlear Implants in Children and Learning Processes

the stove at her grandmothers house can do the same thing. In other words, she is able to generalize that the stove is used for co...

Theory, Skills, and Standards of Physical Education

levels of health awareness and personal wellness goals. Students must understand how to best deal with stress, disease prevention ...

Gifted Classroom Underachiever Manipulation and Psychology

of learning as there are those studying it, but several persist in form and content. Cognitive and cognitive-behavioral theories ...

Brain Dominance and Various Learning Styles

dominant student (Freed and Parsons, 1997). However, this traditional way of teaching does not take into account -- at any point -...

4 Questions on Organizational Theory Answered

Theories Senges book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, largely restates many of the...

College Classroom Analysis and the Concepts of Symbolic Interactionism and Structural Functionalism

a bit of wisdom that is attached to the structural-functionalist school of thought. In looking at the college classroom from the f...

Childhood and Its Secret According to Dr. Maria Montessori

olds from low income families. The schools began opening up in the United States in 1910. In the 1920s however, because of their c...

Complex Thinking Skills and Cooperative Learning

thinking. Because the act or process of thinking is so complex in and of itself, it is helpful to create visions that make it simp...

WWW Sites on the Vietnam War

serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...

Higher Learning Degrees' Reputation and Prestige

is just as variable as are the people providing it. To some students prestige is everything. This contention can be no bet...

Analysis of Enron

days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...

Personal Overview of Learning That is Lifelong

These two people were my father and my great grandmother. Like many young boys, I saw my father as a role model. My father was a...

Efficacy of Learning Teams

Perhaps this student is a good team member because he/she can encourage in a very positive manner. One weakness might be an...

Learning Theories and Philosophy of Education

positive change are the most successful in terms of influencing educational development and learner outcomes. As a component of ...

High School English Classes and Motivation Increases

in the modern day is to gain an understanding of the individual differences in cognitive processing and the implications for curri...

Third Grade Student and Childhood Learning Assessment

that it was a test that had also been given to her friend Haifa and that it was important to test more than one person. This seeme...

A Forecast of Project Management Trends

be traced back to something akin to a lack of understanding regarding the process (2005). An audit team helps to correct such pro...

Handicapped Individuals and Recreational Activities

are all potentially disabled" (pp. S8). The point he goes on to make is that the vast majority of disabled people were not born wi...

LD Testing

deal to work situations, it also affects special education. What it had done is to change, from a legal perspective, the notion o...

Online Education and Marketing

Successful completion of the program (and therefore awarding of the degree) requires five weeks of study on Dukes Durham, North Ca...