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Social Function of Education According to John Dewey

In five pages this report examines the environmental and social functionality views of John Dewey as they relate to education in a...

Educational Concepts of Immanuel Kant

sentence: "Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity." He goes on to defined immaturity as the inability t...

Education Concepts of John Locke

in fact prompt motivation. Yet, while Lockes ideas seem pertinent in todays world where education seems to be nothing more than di...

Discipline and Islam

in the different aspect and practices, but to look at the way in which discipline manifest in the main practices of modern Islam. ...

The ‘Banking' Concept of Education of Paulo Freire

Such a concept, Freire points out, creates a world in which learning has been confused with mimicry and the development of true cr...

Contemporary Education and the Value of Online Access

has been argued that computers have fundamentally changed the central nature of the language laboratory, both in elementary and se...

Succeeding Without a College Education

the retail management ladder. Most people in the retail industry start out when they are looking for a secondary job, filling in ...

Meno by Plato and the Learning Paradox

precisely, is the mind, the elusive entity where intelligence, decision making, perception, awareness and sense of self reside? Wh...

Comparing Educational Perspectives of Chaudhuri and Whitehead

In eight pages this paper discusses The Evolution of Integral Consciousness by Haridas Chaudhuri and Albert North Whitehead's The ...

A Management of Human Resources Overview

the tangible and intangible assets that people bring to their jobs. In todays eat-on-the-freeway modern corporate society - wherei...

Educational Philosophies of Rene Descartes

In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...

Adult Education Today and Yesterday

This is a research paper comprised of five pages that discusses adult education as it existed in ancient Greec in contrast to avai...

Children's Socialization Development

In a paper consisting of 20 pages children's socialization development is considered in a discussion of various theories from thos...

Ideals of Plato and Contemporary Education

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

Education and an Application of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Perspective on Knowledge

In five pages this paper discusses how Rousseau's views regarding learning and knowledge can be practically applied to contemporar...

Philosophy of Education by Jean Jacques Rousseau

tangled when one relies on the system to teach. In fact, when examining contemporary life, one can see that a large compliant abou...

Educational Philosophy of John Dewey

gear pedagogy accordingly, politicians, policymakers and the public at-large are still "stuck" in the old paradigm, which states t...

Modern Africa and Education's Significance

and attitudes from the Western world that are needed as the first step towards development (Lewis, 2002). Unfortunately, Western m...

Pros and Cons of Educational Inclusion

special education on the basis of learning needs rather than categories of handicaps"(Wilcox, Wigle, 1997, pg 371). Children would...

Prejudice and Social Psychology

Allport developed what is known as the contact theory, which asserts that attitudes are established and develop through certain ty...

Contemporary Necessity of Education

stand to fail nearly every endeavor they undertake. This is not to say that they may not have some inherent skills that do not nee...

Web 2.0, Learning 2.0

This research paper describes the changes and innovations that are affecting adult education in contemporary society. This encompa...

Reflections on Bilingual Education Readings

the web of life are connected to societal paradigms and the need to move away from past behavior patterns of violence, mechanizati...

Contemporary World and Adult Self Directed Education

most dynamic approaches to the systematic collection of knowledge in an environment in which that knowledge is collected with the ...

Continuing Education

the "5 As," the steps are: 1) ask the patient if he or she smokes, 2) advise him or her to quit, 3) assess the willingness to...

California Colleges and Universities

also numerous changes to the accreditation process, some of which have to do with distance education. And, there are special provi...

Question About Education

of education to another without really understanding past methods, often put in use today, and their success. In essence, it is cr...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

1990s American Education Legislation

In order to fully understand how legislation impacts the U.S. educational system, and also to consider the problems that are inher...

Comparison of United States and Germany Educational Systems

In nine pages this research paper compares the systems of education in Germany and the United States in terms of funding, educatio...