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Educational Importance of 'the Hidden Curriculum'

to learn, a process that requires various sacrifices so that they can obtain knowledge. Teacher...

School Administration and Leadership

on "horizontal collective action" (Buchen 44). In some cases, the responsibility of running the school is completely in the hand...

Nurse Educator Shortages and Alternatives

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

Issues Pertaining to School Policy Formation

to commit themselves to achieving academic excellence within the boundaries of their abilities and teaching and support staff are ...

Evaluating the Use of Classroom Technology Through Teacher Workshops

in middle and high schools are provided with state-funded computers to promote technology-based learning. In one school in the so...

Methodology of Anna Julia Cooper

(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...

Modern Masculinity/Tough Guise

of women include cosmetics, clothes, anything having to do with food preparation or childrearing. Products sold using images of me...

Using Cell Phones in the Classroom

a PC from the mid-1990s and the simplest cell phones of today carry computing chips that are more powerful than the on-board compu...

Giovanni and the Literary Canon

African American poet of extraordinary power, skill and insight who is extremely deserving of inclusion in the American literary c...

Doing Away with Harmful Traditional Roles

the point that the female sees no other options. This message is one that is still sent by most of society. Non-traditional famil...

Learning Theories and Teacher Practice Within the UK

as: programmed instruction, mastery learning instructional objectives, applied behavior analysis and contracts (Ormrod, 1999). Tea...

Critical Educator and What It Means to Become One

status quo insofar as the effects of policies and practices on the quality of student learning and as creating conditions under wh...

The Librarian As An Educator

be approached. When they are approached, however, they will do whatever they can to teach the inquirer what they need to know. If ...

School System Cultural Wealth Increases

that spans generations. This observation also implies that there is no easy fix. In some way, Martins views on cultural wealth ar...

Benefits of Teen Jobs

currently are extracting the toll built over decades. We have taught teachers that young children would somehow learn to read on ...

Being a Teacher

only be exposed to ideas that are congruent with societal ideals. He argues, "Then shall we simply allow our children to listen to...

Albom/Tuesdays with Morrie

addresses the topic of fear, as well as other negative emotions, explaining to Albom that fears are multiple and can seem overwhel...

LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT IN AUTISM

Much like autism itself, there are a wide variety of communication skills among children with autism. Some are able to carry on st...

Self-Esteem and Learning

These observations naturally give rise to questions about whether or not Wiesenfeld is correct and the attitudes of these students...

Characteristics of Health Education

2006 edition of the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, the editors asked their readers their opinions on issues re...

Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys

wrong. For the most part it appears as though Gurians work is focusing on how bad single mothering is for sons, and how mothers ...

Adult Learning Environment and Code of Ethics Establishment

discern professional behavior from non-professional behavior, others simply operate on a loosely defined set of rules. Dougherty ...

Computer Technology and Effective Educator Communications

use in todays business environment, all of which are appropriate to specific sets of circumstances. The business environment is t...

Public School versus Private School for Preschool Teachers

settings (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). Preschool teachers most often begin as an assistant teacher and progress to the leve...

Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the Classroom

that honors cultural diversity, the teacher begins the same unit by reading a Native American folktale that describes the first fo...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Chapters One through Three of Introduction, Study of the Problem and Outcomes and Evaluation Education Action Research Proposal

deliberately bumping into others when moving from one area to another; making remarks; laughing or giggling when there is nothing ...

Teaching's Learning Model Dimensions

with what we already know to create new knowledge" (Marzano, 1992, p. 5). In other words, to truly learn, a student must interac...

Education of University Level Chinese Students

semblance of the reason for the problem, which is a culture conflict. In order to understand and help Chinese students learn, one ...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...