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Montessori, Piaget And Logico-Mathematical Knowledge

(Durell, 2001). The child is involved in three types of knowledge and goes on to higher cognitive functioning through a variety o...

Community Service and Education

Though meeting performance outcomes is necessitated by modern educational directives and the No Child Left Behind Act, it does not...

Academic Day/Meeting with Teachers

The teacher who pointed this problem out to me was very sympathetic and helpful. I had a good impression of this teacher from the...

What It Means to be a California Peace Officer: A Cadet’s Story

breaking down Penal Code 502 (c)(6) into its proper sections. This breakdown is based upon the code as stated in version three of...

Case Study in Gender and Family Health

or not W is a farmers wife and if rural living is simply a lifestyle choice. Statistics suggest that there is a greater incidence ...

Learning Language

In essence, Chomsky believes that the way in which children acquire their native language is hardwired into the brain and present ...

Cultural Communication Learning Styles

among different groups of people. As Grant-Thomas and Powell (2006) comment, the term structural racism tends to confuse people....

Autism: How Developmental Psychology Can Inform Practice

and after the training sessions, with results being virtually the same (Chin et al, 2000). Theory of mind, the ability to attribu...

Learning Tasks

it with "simple graphics" that are appropriate to the age level of the students (Landers). Another example is the "B-EYE" site, wh...

Discovering the Ancient World

be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...

The Importance of Language: Lessons from Friedman's The World is Flat

that language takes a back seat to other disciplines such as reading, science and mathematics. In reading Thomas Friedmans book Th...

Language And Syllogisms

and the Internet could well be viewed as a foreign language. For example, consider the word mouse which is a creature, and undesir...

Is There A Gender Based Wage Differential?

This gives a basis for which we can compare the male and female salaries. Looking at the range of salaries, the women have...

Educational And Instructional Technology

430 silent filmstrips for military personnel between 1941 and 1945 (University of Texas, 2008). This technology was soon adopted i...

Reflective Essay on John Taylor Gatto’s ‘Against School’ and Malcolm X’s ‘Learning to Read’

X entitled Learning to Read. Gatto has taught in some of New York Citys most challenging schools and is all too familiar with s...

Fadiman/Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

with their prescribed regimen for controlling the childs epilepsy (Simon, 2003). They became so frustrated that they brought charg...

The Ashley Alexandra Dupre Story: A Look at Female Prostitution in the Twenty-First Century

as a serious crime. Still, it is usually the case that the prostitutes are arrested while their customers go free. In the case of ...

Limited-Term Employment Contracts : Spain

pay during maternity leave (European industrial relations observatory on-line, 1999). Every member of the European Union is subje...

The Environment and the Ability to Learn

that social and cultural factors play a significant role. The social environment does impact an individuals ability or desire to l...

Children And Literature: Learning About Themselves In A Book

are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...

Hunter's "Race, Gender, And The Politics Of Skin Tone" - Methodological Review

part of Hunters (2005) methodology, it serves to illustrate the point each author is making about extracting data based upon a mor...

Hormones, Testosterone and Personality Differences Between the Genders

been associated with depression and other psychiatric disorders (Simpson, 2001). For instance, "50-75% of patients with major dep...

Helping The Shy Student

the next child but do not make any comment or use any other signal to indicate irritation or negativity (Malouff, 2007). In older ...

A Biographical Study Of St. Peter, The Apostle

will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you...

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Expatriates Rather Than Host Country Nationals to Staff Foreign Subsidiaries

and Goshall, 1989). Antal (2000) argues that in order to develop the skills and ability to respond to these challenges there are ...

Gender Bias in Education: Girls’ Diminished Participation in Classroom Discussions

We begin with a brief literature review, then follow that with a discussion of the consensus, if there is one, of what the literat...

Inequality in relation to Gender Issues

they get married, and then start the cycle all over again with their own children. Employment/Benefits Although more women ...

'Supporting and Facilitating Self-Directed Learning' Critiqued

whatever the reason an individual takes on such a project, the principles of learning apply. As support, the article lists severa...

Organizational Learning and TSI

To outline this system we may argue that it is more suited to a wider range of environments and scenarios than the soft or hard sy...

Learning Theories of Vygotsky and Piaget

some concrete ideas in his mind as to how things work. When a new idea is introduced such as our example of learning how to open ...