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Instructional Approaches Assessed

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

Classrooms and the Obstacles to Technology Education

programs which are passive in nature, which equate to simple mouse clicks and button pushing did little to enhance the learning pr...

Public Health Advertising v. Direct to Consumer Advertising

2004). As this indicates, disease education in the EU is allowed, but American-style DTC advertising is prohibited. Consequently...

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

Aspects of ECE or Early Childhood Education

She offers as an example a booklet used in schools entitled, "All About Me," which consists of a series of dittoed pages where the...

Tenure of Public School Teachers

teacher," and "tenured teacher" (LaRue, 1996). Each term is reflective of rights of teachers under the statutes of different state...

Moral Education and Personal Philosophy

being more or less universally accepted, teachers tend to be reluctant to discuss character education and moral development (Richm...

Distance Education Investment Reasons

$95,000, Colbert does most of his work online and on the weekends. In a typical study session, Colbert "reviews a finance lecture...

Work of John Dewey and Its Importance

be verified (Dewey, 1938). Pragmatism, then, is the application of scientific methods to areas commonly referred to as ideals and ...

Overview of Global Higher Education

Altbach (2002) also reflects the views of a number of other theorists, who argue that there is an imperative for the globalization...

Sleeter and Grant on Multicultural Education Approaches

stereotypical attitudes towards different groups and working on respect and tolerance of differences. The school needs to move for...

Life and Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

A Park Slope in Brooklyn Overview

have a particular profile that includes a median age of 37.3 years, half of which are single person households ("Brooklyn," 2004)....

Aspects That Make Good Communities

find help through federal programs, although there are problems of access within these systems. If the federal or state government...

Choosing the Career of a Sound Recording Engineer

the style of the music and the desired result, high frequency sounds may be enhanced, or it may be the bass frequencies that are d...

Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, American Identity and Education

the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...

Sex Education as a Social Problem

about sex education is a conflict wherein the dominant group in the society is determining where and how this education should tak...

U.S. and its Dysfunctional System of Education

not act as a powerful incentive for improvement" (p. 255). According to Gehring (2000), the overall consensus on standardiz...

Neighborhood Programs for Recycling Improvements

became painfully apparent with the Mobro 4000 crisis in 1987 - that was the trash barge that drove up and down for thousands of mi...

Education Philosophies

individual study has its place. I think there needs to be a balance in the curriculum, although, I do agree with Deweys integratio...

Education and the Impact of Parental Involvement

It is not adequate to approach parental involvement from only one of these components. Some parents may be very active but they ar...

Contemporary Society and African Americans' Roles

are unable to advance and thus are thrown into a never ending cycle of self depreciation. Yes, true, the United States Just...

ECE and Teaching Diversity

testing, bilingualism, the "digital divide" in which some children have more technological advantages than others, gender issues, ...

DeRolph v. State of Ohio and Public Education Funding Issue

on into its second decade of existence. We will attempt to prove both through the court case and through the system that the curr...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Education

who do not know how to live life and are brainwashed by books and academia" (Chan). In essence, the professor understands the more...

Meningitis and Africans in a Cultural Competency Case Study

right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segmen...

'Good' Education Steps

through supplemental and more specialized courses throughout secondary school years and beyond (Clater). Also, classes are struct...

Physical Education Evolution and Growth

education training had proven to be the reason for this regiments success. After the Civil War, the government expressed concern a...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Online Education

classes for working professionals as long as 15 years ago. Today, students are not required to maintain such geographical p...

Character and Values Education

approach in terms of providing moral education to students primarily because it was based on the supposition that youngsters inher...