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The Fifth Discipline and the Learning Organization

those organizations that are readily adaptive, flexible and productive will excel and perhaps even be able to survive. To make th...

Learning Environment and Communication Strategies

However, this is not simply a matter if a subject that interests the student making a different; it is also in the way it is prese...

Influential Factors in Early Childhood Learning

number of researchers for different age groups. Bukatko and Daehler (1998) introduce the term "scaffolding" to describe the criti...

3 Strategy Simulations and Lessons Learned

in medical and biological research (Berry and Mielke, 1996), but according to a search at Google and Gale Groups InfoTrac is not f...

Technology and Learning Systems

alone should not be the only measures of accountability for school libraries and library professionals. Instead, there is a need ...

Overview of Learning That is Problem Based

"Teachers dont seem to recognise [sic] complex nature of information retrieval and librarians get frustrated by how unrecognised [...

Philosophies on Personal Learning

1999, p. 104+) - believed children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the void, but rath...

Cognitive and Behavioral Learning Perspectives

has read the literature, listened to the warnings, and learned that it is harmful to his health. There is a direct connection bet...

Personality Profiles and Learning Styles

thinking about it (Learning styles, 2001). Traditional educational methods "tend to favor abstract perceiving and reflective proc...

Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

hard, all you need to do is to set stretching goals." But recent studies in motivation in the workplace suggest that simply setti...

ESL Instruction and Internet Learning Programs

It must be recognized that ESL and TESOL premises are based in a pedagogical ideology that is the linked to second language instru...

Curriculum Design and the Effects of the Learning Theory of Jean Piaget

can readily recognize how teaching reflects the combined components of open communication, creative instruction and critical think...

Learning Theory in 'Stand & Deliver'

of causal processes." Emphasizing the notion of learned expectations, Banduras (1986) theory is closely associated with self-effi...

Freedom of Knowledge and the Courage of Learning

a violin that is found among their belongings. The headman condemns it as "a bourgeois toy" and commands that it be burnt (Sijie ...

Professional Context of Lifelong Learning

may not be enough to spark motivation or improve performance. Lifelong learning has been viewed as one way of defining motivation...

Adult Identity and Learning

As a result, my understanding of my self as an adult learner is that I place a greater value on the educational experience than le...

Language Learning Instruments Assessment

data in an assessment process. According to Greenhalgh (1997), reliability and validity begin with an explicit statement of the s...

Children With Learning Disabilities and Failure Statistics' Data Collection

that the process of evaluating the subjects and providing for questionnaire responses is an element of consideration in evaluating...

An Article on Higher Learning Curriculum Critiqued

that multicultural education should include the "religious and spiritually based concepts of reality" that are fundamental to othe...

Social Learning and Aggression

hammers (plus scientific observers) (Boeree, 1998). The children beat the daylights out of the doll, hitting it, kicking it, sitt...

Learning Organizations and Cisco Systems

employees found that ? The company used a legacy PC-based test system less sophisticated than Ciscos Autotest system ? Summa Fours...

Questions Answered About Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory

motivated to repeat it (motivation) (Boeree, 1998). Can the theory explain new things? Yes, very easily. Since Bandura has sh...

Personal Overview of Learning That is Lifelong

These two people were my father and my great grandmother. Like many young boys, I saw my father as a role model. My father was a...

Efficacy of Learning Teams

Perhaps this student is a good team member because he/she can encourage in a very positive manner. One weakness might be an...

Self-Esteem and Learning

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

Learning Social-Emotional Skills

A family that is dysfunctional or where the basic needs of survival do not exist will have a greater challenge to teach these less...

At Risk African American Male Learning and a Discussion of Cognition and its Cultural Influences

2004). "The majority of reporting states-26 out of the 46 responding to the latest survey-have dropout rates ranging from 4.0% to...

Learning Theories and Philosophy of Education

positive change are the most successful in terms of influencing educational development and learner outcomes. As a component of ...

A Comparison of Various Learning Theories

is placed throughout on the status of representations underlying different capacities and on the multiple levels at which knowledg...

Higher Learning Degrees' Reputation and Prestige

is just as variable as are the people providing it. To some students prestige is everything. This contention can be no bet...