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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...

ESL

of nationalities, which speaks to the continual need for effective English instruction. Some of the inherent difficulties and cha...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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,...

Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal, Alice Walker's The Flowers and Lessons Learned

cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...

Analyzing the Novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

consider the color of that persons skin nor do they rationalize the behavior with a variety of preconceived notions which society ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Organizational Learning and TSI

To outline this system we may argue that it is more suited to a wider range of environments and scenarios than the soft or hard sy...

Machine Learning, Data Mining, and KM

new information becomes available. This requires a dynamic form of programmes that will facilitate machine learning. In this paper...

UPS' 1997 Labor Strike and Management Lessons Learned

general, as an organization grows bigger its organizational structure enlarges as well (Robbins, 1999). As the environment in whi...

Challenges of English as a Second Language for High School Students

students do when trying to learn English. These special needs students are not routinely given the individualized attention they ...

Case Study Based on the Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandura

26 year old male rapist would indicate that his behavioral disorder which leads to the violent attack was somehow as a result of o...

Changing Views on Caring for the Mentally Ill

The treatment of the mentally ill has changed drastically since the asylums of the 19th century. This paper examines the historic...

Effects of Birth Order on Learning and Cognitive Development

In twenty pages assumed and perceived impacts of birth order on learning and cognitive development are examined with the inclusion...

Learning theories in relation to cognition.

This paper looks at various theories related to motivation and learning, including those of Piaget, Bandura and Seligman. This fiv...

Process of Learning

control his or her eyes well enough to scan a line of text from side to side, and the physical aspects of the other activities are...

Learning Transfer and Knowledge of Results

In twelve pages this research paper examines the relationship that exists between learning transfer and knowledge of results. Twe...

Processes Involved in Learning and Automation

This paper addresses the various educational aspects involved in the learning process and skill automation, or when certain skills...

4 Andragogical Assumptions by Knowles

and experience to the higher education classroom which allows each of us to assimilate and accommodate new information in a more f...