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Cultural And Gender Influences In Education And Organizations

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

Thomas Hobbes And Sigmund Freud: Man Is Born Into Specific Behaviors

Hobbes clearly addresses the notion of individualism and Social Contract Theory as they relate to the moral factor behind justice....

Behaviorism/Teaching College Students

focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...

Personal Definition Of Video Games

methods of book reading; given the multitude of students who have at least some level or type of learning and/or attention disorde...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Inclusion And Cooperative Learning

a variety of models to increase academic performance of special education students. They have met with some success in that 65 per...

Ecofeminism

volumes about the inherent fortitude that comprises the female spirit. The concept of feminism embodies a number of critical theo...

Crime And Youth: How Family Relations Contribute To The Development

Aggressive behavior would not be such a concern in children if it were a natural occurrence for them to outgrow the tendency; howe...

Education And Senior Centers

active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Sameroff's Transactional Model Of Development: Association With Cognitive Development

Whether typical in nature or fraught with learning difficulties, Sameroff (1975a) contends the extent to which parental involvemen...

Training and Change

it though learning. The different models can be seen as based on learning styles, how information is communicated and also how t...

Considerations for Setting up a Distance Learning Internet Business

common perception is based on the rational model of decision making. This is one of the earliest and sometimes referred to as the ...

Place Theory of Hearing

the tube. He was able to confine the bulge to the biggest part of the bulge to a particular region on the membrane (Nave, n.d.). W...

Lessons Learned From Love Canal

with earth and sold it to the city for one dollar" (Beck, 1979). Shortly thereafter a residential community and school sprouted u...

The Use of Songs and Games to Teach English as a Second Language

repetitive and consistent (Schoepp, 2001). 2. Affective reasons: this reason involves the Affective Filter Hypothesis and basicall...

Teaching Reading with the Fernald Method

channel, thus, giving all students the opportunity to learn through whichever channel is their strength. This approach has childre...

High Textbook Costs Stifle Students' Learning Potential

apply. Basically meaning that minorities and white students with little or no visible means of support are directed, because of th...

Improving the Conditions of Teaching

learning will be enhanced for an excited leader or teacher is one who can best impart the desire to learn and do better in the stu...

Nursing; Engaging, Development and Disengaging From a Therapeutic Relationship

of chemicals in the brain that result or enhance depressive conditions. For some patients this treatment is not always effective, ...

Information Management at Amazon.com

In 1995, it was a given that anyone purchasing goods from an online retailer would need to supply a credit card in order to comple...

Bernstein's Argument: Effective In Explaining Racial-Ethnic Inequality In Academic Achievement

linguistics. Slang is a component of nearly every spoken language; however, the line between jargon and true common speech ...

Analysis of Learning a Second Language

for science, technology, and international business" (Unz and Tuchman, 1997). In other words, this legislation was passed in order...

Three Discussion Questions from Week Two

therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support tho...

How Pilots Learn to Fly

mental or neurological difficulties such as alcoholism, epilepsy, heart attack or chronic heart disease, diabetes or other debilit...

Lessons Learned Post Desert Storm

and highly dangerous authoritarian who would like nothing better than to wipe the United States off the face of the map. To have ...

Effective Learning through Presentations

their audience (Jarvis). Practice and experience also reduces the anxiety one feels although the most experienced presenter is sti...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...

Jean Piaget, John Dewey, and Constructivism

way will these children be able to discriminate, to make distinctions that penetrate below the surface" (Campbell, 1995, p. 216). ...

William R. Yount's Created to Learn

step by step procedure for helping learners to learn incorporating the best of the theories with the doctrine of the Christian fai...