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Essays 1861 - 1890

The Environment and the Ability to Learn

that social and cultural factors play a significant role. The social environment does impact an individuals ability or desire to l...

Learning Tasks

it with "simple graphics" that are appropriate to the age level of the students (Landers). Another example is the "B-EYE" site, wh...

Discovering the Ancient World

be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...

The Importance of Language: Lessons from Friedman's The World is Flat

that language takes a back seat to other disciplines such as reading, science and mathematics. In reading Thomas Friedmans book Th...

Learning Language

In essence, Chomsky believes that the way in which children acquire their native language is hardwired into the brain and present ...

Language And Syllogisms

and the Internet could well be viewed as a foreign language. For example, consider the word mouse which is a creature, and undesir...

What It Means to be a California Peace Officer: A Cadet’s Story

breaking down Penal Code 502 (c)(6) into its proper sections. This breakdown is based upon the code as stated in version three of...

Community Service and Education

Though meeting performance outcomes is necessitated by modern educational directives and the No Child Left Behind Act, it does not...

Effective Teamwork

transition to storming and norming stages, they will begin to listen more carefully to the other members, and in the performing st...

Lessons and Principles from Maxwell

evident over the last fifteen years almost makes long-range planning a waste of time but we know that long-range planning today sh...

Collaborative Culture And Trust In The Academic Setting

just some of the concerns scholastic experts have discussed as a means by which to ascertain the true benefit of effective and ena...

PERSONAL ESSAY: COLLEGE YEARS AND LESSONS LEARNED

asked to declare a major during my freshman year, I said business. But I really had my eye on becoming that NBA star, at least unt...

IBM AND THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION

have the ability and capacity to learn, he explained, but what stood in the way were the rigid corporate structures in which they ...

Developing The Leader Within You

evident over the last fifteen years almost makes long-range planning a waste of time but we know that long-range planning today sh...

The Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

Maxwell's Ideas on Resistance to Change

requirements of the change.5 More often than not, leaders are much better versed in the technical requirements than in the psychol...

Orenstein's Smart but Stuck

(2001) draws on some of the personal experiences of those she interviewed for the book, providing the reader with a great deal of ...

Hermann Ebbinghaus Life and Contributions

f?r Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane (Hermann Ebbinghaus). (The title translates roughly as the "Journal of Psychology...

TECHNOLOGY AND INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY

school turned to its Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) which was "quickly overwhelmed with requests for assistance" from facul...

Introduction to Montessori

uses the external world to obtain information and knowledge (Montessori 1995). The child has an absorbent mind from birth to age...

The Value of Social Networking Tools in a Teaching Environment with Specific Consideration of Business Students

at the way tools that are used as social networking tool are being used, adapted and are adding value to the learning processes fo...

Reflective Learning in the Radiology Department

This is the event for which the processes focused, on which the reflection is taking place. This is an objective stage where the d...

Learning Theory Applied to a Government Department

the need to learn to develop and respond may not be seen as new, this dates back to ideas such as Sun Tzu and Confucius (Thompson,...

The First American Casualties in the Korean War

Korean War. Unfortunately Task Force Smith was just the opening page of a war that would turn out to be a long and gruesome affair...

"Youth Do Not Care About Politics": Why, and What Can be Done?

material possessions and feelings of isolation from political officials and institutions. Forbrig, Joerg. Revisiting Youth Pol...

Factors Affecting Human Behavior

issue, concern or problem (Van Wagner 2010). There area strict codes of conduct regarding any research in the field of psychology...

Human Resources Now And In The Future

strategies" (Greer, 2001). HRVS (2007) carried this thought further when it wrote: "Every organization begins with a mission or re...

Adult Development and Learning Models

(MacKinnon-Slaney, 1994, p. 268). Any development and learning model that is going to help has to recognize that adults need guida...

Organisational Culture; A Case Study

and ever changing (Trice and Beyer, 1993). Organisational culture embodies what is and is not accepted within an organisation in t...

Social Studies & Cooperative Learning

this issue by conducting a qualitative study that explore how a teacher incorporated cooperative learning strategies in an eighth ...