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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Public Schools and Character Education

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

Importance of Family, Hard Work, and Education

and use the knowledge in his or her field. What tends to make ones life easier in the long run is if one has a quality education....

An Overview of Adult Education

result, this first assessment tool must reflect elements that relate to these three areas. For this first assessment, then, a pro...

Adult Education Programs

Testing Service for the National Center for Education Statistics, suggested that it may be impossible for the United States to ach...

Brown v. Board of Education Case Decision and its Effects

However, the victory that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka represented in the Black community did not carry over to the major...

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...

Phonics That is Synthetic and Analytic

quotes a previous Director, John Stannard, as saying that the essential elements of teaching literacy involve the identification a...

Law Enforcement, Cultural diversity and Community

of ones skin or the culture one has grown up with. Diversity, it can be said is as individual as the way in which one approaches p...

Alternative Adult Education Models

adult education within the confines of a college, university or junior/community college. Adult students attend such institutions ...

Africa Education During Apartheid

the obtaining of one goal: white supremacy over the majority black population in South Africa. INTRODUCTION: Each country has num...

Educational Management Business Model

model was the decentralized version that was child-centered proposed by progressives (Gelburg, 1997). Both models were based on ma...

Professional Education Organizations

Consider St. Louis, for example, where at the turn of the century students completed less than three years of school prior to ente...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Music Appreciation Among Adults

What is Music? In order to demonstrate the adult concepts relevant to music appreciation, it is imperative that one first h...

Tutorial on Taiwan's Workforce and its Lack of Women

percent of the workforce were women, then the original thesis, which suggested that women choose not to work could be explored. Si...

A Summary of 'Theological Perspectives on Christian Formation'

This paper is 10 pages in length and considers the importance of a Christian education. There are 2 additional sources listed in ...

Clinical Skills Evaluation and the Teaching Role of Nurses

In seven pages this research paper discusses the new teaching approaches in nursing education and how the ever growing field will ...

Education Appropriations for the State of Washington

In ten pages this paper examines how the state of Washington approaches its education budgeting and its funding issue struggles. ...

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder and Philosophical Education

In nineteen pages this paper discusses the philosophical education of teenager Sophie Amundsen in Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder'...