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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: ...

2 Articles on Distance Learning

model is essential: students must create their own understandings and meanings from the resources and information available. Human...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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 ...

Offering a New University Course Risk and Benefit Assessment

and OPerability study and HAZard and IMplementation study. These can be used to identify and work around different factors, but ma...

Hypothetical Situation

Celia Jellin has been daing Cedric Brown for almost a year. Here, on the eve of graduation, Celia finds that she is pregnant. Havi...

Future Learning Improved by a Quality Preschool

for the district" (Childrens Action Alliance, 2003). The findings reported in the above outline demonstrate many and diverse bene...

Inquiry Based Learning and Elementary School Science

inquiries, the scientific information covered in any particular lesson plan will undoubtedly be remembered long after memorized fa...

Learning that is Inquiry Based

may be given increasing autonomy in their learning activities. Martin-Hansen provides a chart that illustrates this by showing the...

Critiquing an Assessment of the Research Study on Relationship Between Learning Disabilities and HIV Risks

students have numerous misconceptions about how HIV is transmitted (Blanchett, 2002). Blanchett (2002) attempts to provide more d...

Admissions Essay Example

am certain that something expanded your worldview because something always does. Children assume that everybody is like them, but,...

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...

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...

Preferences of Adult Learners

school (Belzer, 2004). This conflict is clearly shown in Belzers article and her case studies of five students. All the subjects...

Overview of Treating Learning Disabilities with Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome

In five pages this research paper examines Dr. Helen Irlen's Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome and how colored lens can assist in the ...

Distance Learning and Its Advantages

able to educate children who best use their visual channels. In the classroom, the teacher speaks. Someone who better learns throu...

Cooperative Learning, Neurolinguistic Programming, and English as a Foreign Language Strategy

transforming our sense data into internal images, sounds, smells, tastes and sensations" (Gal?n and Maguire, 1999). We each commun...

Chapters Four and Five of Historiographical Study of Management and Leadership

enormous differences in the world when things like the telegraph and telephone were invented or even the move to factories of empl...

Learning Perspectives

functional literacy in the workplace. The learning process, then, is conscious and applicable, and can be understood relative to ...

High School English Classes and Motivation Increases

in the modern day is to gain an understanding of the individual differences in cognitive processing and the implications for curri...

Acquiring a Second Language and the Effects of Strategies and Styles of Learning

1996, p. 353) who come from different backgrounds. Moreover, this unstructured form of education poses a considerable problem for...

Learning to Dance in Terms of Cause and Effect

just want to learn a new type of dance. In relationship to effects, as it relates to the first cause, learning how...

The Impact of Adult ADD/ADHD on Education

diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...