SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Postmodernist Philosophy of Education

Essays 31 - 60

Philosophy Defined by Philosphers

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

Communications Skills of Oprah Winfrey

she werent sincere, she simply wouldnt do it. This is an advantage of having the control she does - she can choose what she wants ...

Film Death and the Maiden

my tendency , would be to ask her what she gains for herself, by hanging on to this hurtfulness, Was she at some level repeating ...

Classroom Management Philosophy

or love of their subject matter and a desire to motivate students. Problematic Behaviors Problematic behaviors are actions by s...

NYC Teacher Importance

would enhance any educational environment. For example, I have learned the importance of both teaching and learning, and believe ...

The Outsider by Albert Camus and Perspective Narrative

a "benign indifference of the universe." This discussion will examine how the narrator, Meursault, aka Camus, gets that message a...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Postmodernism and White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty

In five pages this research paper examines the postmodernist views expressed in the novel The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty. F...

1916 Text Democracy in Education by John Dewey

the baby chick, that shortly after it hatches makes a few stabs for food, as in beak-eye coordination. Masters that concept and b...

Analysis of Robert Coover's Pinocchio in Venice

In five pages this paper discusses this postmodernist work as the first chapter of The Entrance analyzes it in terms of meaning an...

Education and Plato

In five pages this paper examines youth and adult education according to Plato's philosophy. Three sources are listed in the bibl...

Modern Education and Immanuel Kant's Philosophy

working out the Critical philosophy. According to Bowman (1999), this quote articulates the chief motivation of the Critical philo...

Philosophy of Vocational and Technical Education

Clearly, vocational and technical education is required in many instances for such programs to be successful. Vocational, career a...

Criticisms of Freud

the meaning of "culture," as well, which Freud saw as "the necessary bulwark for survival pitted against the primitive desires of ...

Education Philosophies

individual study has its place. I think there needs to be a balance in the curriculum, although, I do agree with Deweys integratio...

Post World War II Modernism and Postmodernism Architecture

and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as e...

Aristotle and Plato Critiquing Education

as people do want to know things and understand (1995). Both theorists do view education as important and place a particular empha...

Interdisciplinary Perspective on Philosophy

In five pages this research essay examines how the disciplines of computer science, scientific method, psychology, sociology, art,...

Oliver Stone's Film Natural Born Killers and Postmodernism

In seven pages this paper discusses how in 1994's Natural Born Killers filmmaker Oliver Stone employed postmodernist techniques. ...

Modernism, Postmodernism, and The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

the surface than was accessible through the conscious mind, and that there were ways to evoke feeling through words without flat s...

Philosophy of Christian Education

The basic philosophy behind Christian education is considered in a paper consisting of six pages. Four sources are cited in the b...

Public School System in America and Horace Mann

and virtuous work force" (Foner; Garraty PG). When he spoke before audiences that consisted mostly of working class people, he emp...

American Cinema, Historical and Education Ideology

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

Life and Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

first time Kant introduced the notion of the human mind as a creator of experience instead of merely a passive recipient (Immanuel...

Postmodernist Perspectives of Bauman and Foucault

It is therefore not possible to allocate it to...

Moral Education and Personal Philosophy

being more or less universally accepted, teachers tend to be reluctant to discuss character education and moral development (Richm...

Philosophies of Anzia Yezierska and Frederick Douglass

In six pages the similar philosophies of Russian Jewish author Anzia Yezierska of New York's Lower East Side and freed slave Frede...

Ancient Greece and Education

In five pages this research paper discusses education in ancient Greece with a consideration of the systems in Sparta and Athens a...

Classroom Observation Analysis

Slattery and Steinberg, 1999). Dewey promoted social experiences and having students solve problems in group settings (Kincheloe...

Humanism in Adult Basic Education

endorsed, but personal development is practiced; Brookfield wonders why the contradiction exists, and finds his answer in the text...