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Essays 1981 - 2010

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...

Ohliger, MacKeracher, and Lindeman

The three entitled authors wrote a great deal about adult learning. This essay discusses their ideas in specific works. There are ...

Freire and Mezirow: Transformational Learning

This essay presents a grid, which offers a summary on Mezirow and Freire's main points concerning transformational learning. Three...

Failing Grades and Learning Disabilities

category was first formulated in 1977. The phrase, "All student will learn to read by third grade" has become a rallying point in ...

Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

Learning, Metacognition, and Perception

2002). Metacognition, which reflects a bit more mental tangibility in its definition, is comprised of three distinct components: ...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Styles of Learning and Outdoor Education

to guide ones objective to the most appropriate fruition: 1. Teach a commitment to human responsibility for stewardship or care o...

Failing Grades and LD Students

the legal system that the best place for special education students - psychologically and otherwise - is within the mainstream sys...

Continuing Education and Online Learning Effectiveness

result; the achievement of something planned or attempted. We could conclude that effectiveness and success in education is define...

NJ State Troopers and Privacy Rights

a person in a position that cannot be held by someone with AIDS submits a receipt for AZT; in the third, a claims administrator se...

William Glasser and Jean Piaget's Theories of Personal Learning

understanding - including habituation and violation of expectation - with each stage represented by age-related limitations and sp...

Runners and Exercise and Diet Training and Conditioning

The benefits of well thought exercise are uncontested when it comes to so-called "crash building". Improperly conducted, however,...

Part One of Faust by Goethe

at any time--Faust is ever completely satisfied with life, that is, if he is provided with a moment so perfect that he wishes for ...

Impact of Inclusion Upon Learning Disabled Students

"like frequent breaks or a small-group setting" (Rubenstein and Quinones, 2004). The state reports that 84 percent of students wit...

Montessori Educational Program and Physical Environment's Importance

in which the child can grow and develop (MontessoriConnections, n.d.). Preparing the environment includes having the appropriate ...

A Forecast of Project Management Trends

be traced back to something akin to a lack of understanding regarding the process (2005). An audit team helps to correct such pro...

Leo F. Buscaglia's Living, Loving and Learning

fly; however, the curriculum committee was quite happy because the bird had at least tried to burrow (Buscaglia 13). As this sugge...

Learning and the Foxfire Educational Curriculum

In five pages this paper examines the significance of the Foxfire curriculum approach to education to learning, with examples prov...

Current Economy Status Economy

In six pages this paper examines the lessons learned from the stock market crashes of 1929 and 1987 and what can be applied to the...

2 Essays on eLearning Shifts

In seven pages this paper examines 2 essays on the shift to online education from the traditional bricks and mortar approach to le...

4 Topics Summarized

In six pages four topics are discussed and include learning disabilities and educational interventions, psychological and educatio...

Students with Developmental Delays and Preschool Education

In five pages this paper discusses the preschool learning of mathematics for preschool students who have developmental delays. Ei...

Higher Education Facilities and the Application of Total Quality Management

impossible. Deming identified 14 points, or principles for management. They are: 1. Create constancy of purpose toward improvement...

Travel in the Writings of Rudyard Kipling, Gustave Flaubert, and Samuel Johnson

In six pages learning and adventure through travel are examined within the context of various writings by Kipling, Flaubert, and J...

An Analysis of Charlottes Web By E.B. White

This 5 page essay reviews this phenomenally popular childrens book about a learned spider and a young pig. 3 sources....

Creating Well-Rounded Business People Using Both Brain Hemispheres

This 5 page paper argues that while most business is anchored in the logical left side of the brain, there is also room for creati...

Society and the Ethics of Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's contentions regarding overcoming self interests in human nature are examines within the context that acc...

Continuing Learning Plan and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of continuing learning in the nursing profession in a consideration of the impor...

Post Rochester Identity of Jane Eyre

In five pages this paper discusses the novel by Charlotte Bronte with a focus upon the different identity Jane forges after learni...