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The Role of Education from a Functionalist Perspective

proliferating and reinforcing the existing social values and teaching the children about the social system by providing the same s...

Preceptorship in Nursing

to do with how a person feels about him- or herself. Those with a high sense of self-efficacy believe that they can master even di...

Australian Education: Grammar and Literacy

levels of education, there has been some concern that courses related to careers in information or printing, which used to emphasi...

The Bilingual Education Debate

There is also evidence that bilingualism actually provides benefit to culturally diverse students. Sheng, McGregor and Marian cond...

HEALTH CARE POLICY ISSUE: PUBLIC POLICY RESPONSE TO FOOD LABELING

agencies, both of which demanded more nutritional information on food (Frazao and Lynch, 1991). At the time of the laws passage, t...

How to Encourage Innovative Ideas

in chaos. Durk Jager, former CEO of Proctor & Gamble placed so much emphasis on innovation that led to a decline in profits and l...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Importance of Healthy Lifestyle

or they ignore the information. This is one of the reasons it is so important to instill that knowledge and those practices in chi...

STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION

on how well students did on the standardized tests. But is standardization an effective way to measure learning outcomes? O...

Law Enforcement and the Value of Higher Education

States has been largely operating under a model wherein certain jobs require significant amounts of training and immersion in high...

"Practical Life" Instruction - An Overview

education, in the most basic sense, is a fundamental pre-requisite for the acquisition of any skill-set in life, from the most bas...

The Classroom and Cross-Cultural Competency

is especially true when dealing with children or adolescents, for whom cultural acceptance is often a critical aspect of social in...

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY AND THE IMPACT ON HIGHER EDUCATION

tests, falsifying term papers and so on. Many campuses believe that the honor code is enough to deter academic dishonesty. ...

Psychologists & Continuing Education

continuing professional education, Kavanaugh sees such laws as limiting and eroding the "defining characteristics of the professio...

Special Education/Ethical Issues & Disciplinary Actions

to a punitive approach to discipline do exist and have been shown to be successful with special education students. For example, i...

New Nurses Survival Guide

2008, p. 208). The purpose of the study designed by Sorensen and Yankech (2008) was to investigate whether a "research-based, th...

Plagiarism in Adult Education

same assignments" (Jocoy; DiBiase 2006). Overall the study indicated that through strategies to reduce and educate about plagiaris...

Learning Theories Integrated Into The Online Instructional Approach

is essential to recognize this fact and implement such a program. A group atmosphere provides a sense of familiarity among studen...

America’s Grade Schools and the Importance of Technology and Technology Integration

rest of the world in ways early educators would have thought unimaginable. From early ages, children are exposed to technology, a...

Philosophy Shapes Research, Research Shapes Practice

serving as common denominators for any potentially unified answer: Mans beliefs are either perceptional or inferential in nature (...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

Finding Forrester: Education and the Arts

respects it is not a film that illustrates how art education impacts students but how one student is inspired by art education and...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

Learning A Second Language In Infancy And/Or Childhood: Benefits Or Costs For Language Development?

controversial - examples of how the spoken language has fallen victim to the lazy tongues of many bi- and multilingual societies. ...

Effective Educational Leadership Today

the globe. Scoppio (2002) reported research regarding trends conducted in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. This a...

Educational And Instructional Technology

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

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

Is Salary Correlated with Education Length

an hypothesis test, for this we need to state an hypothesis and a null hypothesis (Curwin and Slater, 1998). H1 There is a signi...

Decisions on the Educational Needs of Children With Down Syndrome

these parents had to mentally brace themselves for the harsh reminder that for every accomplishment the other twin made Avery woul...

Educational Attainment and Social Origin

or the "subdominant cultures" who eventually settled there. The situation has become progressively more complex in modern society...