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United Parcel Service Strike of 1997

still be successful when the issues are real and when they stick together. On August 4, 1997, 185,000 United Parcel Service (U...

Cognitive and Behavioral Learning Perspectives

has read the literature, listened to the warnings, and learned that it is harmful to his health. There is a direct connection bet...

Self Directed Learners' Characteristics

need for self-esteem, a desire to achieve, and the satisfaction that will come from accomplishing something" (Hiemstra and Judd, 1...

Zoo Visits and Changing Attitudes of Children

with some of its most enjoyable elements of entertainment, all at the cost of the animals life. A staple of Americana, the ...

Lessons of Travel in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

not tell Polyphemus his name, rather indicating to the Cyclops that his name is "Nobody." When Polyphemus friends respond to his c...

Overview of Learning That is Problem Based

"Teachers dont seem to recognise [sic] complex nature of information retrieval and librarians get frustrated by how unrecognised [...

Overview of Dyslexia

the last 30 years (Singleton, 2000). Essentially, making positive diagnosis of dyslexia involves establishing that: 1. The childs ...

Personality Profiles and Learning Styles

thinking about it (Learning styles, 2001). Traditional educational methods "tend to favor abstract perceiving and reflective proc...

Influential Factors in Early Childhood Learning

number of researchers for different age groups. Bukatko and Daehler (1998) introduce the term "scaffolding" to describe the criti...

Philosophies on Personal Learning

1999, p. 104+) - believed children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the void, but rath...

Technology and Learning Systems

alone should not be the only measures of accountability for school libraries and library professionals. Instead, there is a need ...

Acquisition of Language and Memory Encoding

primary sample population in this study consists of subjects selected from the population of university students in a laboratory c...

1990s Global Financial Crises, Causes, and Reforms

of the 1990s came as a surprise to economists who thought that more globalization would have the effect of stabilizing internation...

Behavior of Adults and Children

of the skin, children get along (unless theyre fighting over a toy, but thats a different matter). Its only when parents let the c...

Learning at a Distance

not check or censor messages in this way, and the discussions tend to be less structured and often rather more heated in tone....

Use of a Journal to Teach Business Ethics

of ethical behaviour. The problem with ethics in business can be seen in the way that there is a conflict between the ideals of e...

Online Degrees and Distance Learning

for working professionals as long as 15 years ago. Today, students are not required to maintain such geographical proximity...

S. Foss's Inviting Transformation, Presentational Speaking for a Changing World and Public Speaking

those principles and put them into action and practice presentational speaking. Nevertheless, the first part of my task is accompl...

Technology and Learning Styles Among High School Freshman

about the impacts of specific instructional methodologies and motivational elements. As a result, Cohen called for the expansion ...

The Identity of Adult Learners

In this paper that consists of five pages the identity acquired by adults through the learning process is examined within the cont...

Learning Ability Improvement

doubts that listening to classical music, especially at a very young age, will effect the spatial-temporal reasoning, an ability n...

Rural America and English as a Second Language

as an anecdote in this article is one located in a "corner" of Iowa (2001). The author explains that "urban school districts oft...

Programs of University and Online Distance Learning

Japan were incorporating their own variations into their respective educational curriculums (Matthews, 1999). By the early twenti...

Classroom Impacts of Technology Integration and Educator Qualification

qualifications (2004). While teacher qualification is something that many have paid attention to, and this is something that No C...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

Middle East and Communication Telecentres

The idea behind these telecentres is to open access to the Internet, for those without private access (Middle East: ICT Initiativ...

Use of Cooperative Learning

repeat this process in order to provide a basis through which the concepts can be internalized. Testing, then, occurs after an ad...

Learning Problems and Comprehensive Assessments

onset of ADD/ADHD is the sense that children with this condition demonstrate oppositional behaviors and are "out of control." Thi...

Marks and Spencer Type Store Marketing Plan

less bureaucratic and flatter, it is interesting that the first attempt at this, in 1999 was not a success. At the time the compan...

Overview of Global Higher Education

Altbach (2002) also reflects the views of a number of other theorists, who argue that there is an imperative for the globalization...