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Montessori and Vygotsky: current applications.

the main query as to how students learn, Vygotsky explored how students construct meaning (Jaramillo, 1996; p. 133). Vygots...

Multicultural Education in a Literature Based Approach

This six page paper discusses and critiques Promoting multicultural education through a literature-based approach by Elaine Mindi...

Education and Cognitive Growth According to Piaget and Montessori

In five pages this paper compares these two educational theorists' thoughts on education and cognitive growth. Ten sources are ci...

Importance of Education and Teen Pregnancy

"is the best possible option for kids" and should be the primary, if not the only, lesson that schools teach (Curran, and Witt, 20...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Continuing Educaiton and the Application of Theory

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

Oregon Trail and Education

(2003). While not formal, the education was something for the children to hang onto. Obviously, the reason why formal education co...

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...

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...

Public Schools and Character Education

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

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...

Early Childhood Education and Major Concepts

private, in order to reach their full potential (Harbin, et al, 2004). The current incarnation of this legislation is the Individu...

Campaign Issues in the Presidential Election of 2004

has not sufficiently supplemented the needy systems with cash. In essence, schools continue to fail not because they do not want t...

The Social Importance of Relative Adoptions

PLIGHT OF FOSTER CHILDREN IN EDUCATION Theory In a related study, Emerson & Lovitt (2003) performed a meta...

A Needs Assessment for Diabetes Education in New York City

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

Mountain Settings and Education

human life after the dark green of the forest cover begins to blaze yellow, red and orange in the fall, however, for a thin column...

Changes in Educational Paradigms and Curricula During the Twentieth Century

there is the idea that knowledge underlies the thinking. Rsenick & Hall (1998) explain: "In every field of thought, cognitive scie...

Bilingual Education/Issue Pro & Con

associated with bilingual education, evaluating what works and what does not, is not an easy task (Gilroy 50). Both supporters an...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...

Cultural Basis of Education, Pedagogy and Educational Psychology

are based largely on the work of early behavioral theorists such as Freud, Erikson and Piaget (Ollhoff, 1996). These men and other...

Australia's System of Post Compulsory Education

and Further Education System (TAFE) which is the major provider" (National Report on the development of education in Australia, 19...

Article Discussion of 'Private Schools are Not Emotional Havens for Teens'

commit suicide as their counterpart in large public schools. Teen suicide is a subject of some importance, because the rate is hi...

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...

Schools in Malta and Prayer

to religion can be understood as a foundation of the current education system. The main legislation is the Education Act 1988, u...

Special Education/Literature Review

Itards efforts to help the child are widely acknowledged as constituting the beginnings of the history of special education (Smith...

Special Education Overview

the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) in 1990. This legislation mandates that all children with disabilities receive a "fre...

Computer Technology in the Classroom: Advantages and Disadvantages

Instructional technology has been in a state of evolution throughout history. In the latter part of the twentieth century, howeve...

National Educational Technology Plan

This is immediate feedback for both teacher and students on their level of understanding. The teacher can then repeat the lesson o...

Article Critique/Moral Leadership

the schools life-world will draw out "the unique potential inherent with each individual" (Quick and Normore, 2004, p. 336). The a...