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Essays 1921 - 1950

Character Traits Relating to Educational Readiness

variety of educational models that underscore learning as an element of individual nature as well as cultural and social variables...

Adult Identity and Learning

As a result, my understanding of my self as an adult learner is that I place a greater value on the educational experience than le...

Freedom of Knowledge and the Courage of Learning

a violin that is found among their belongings. The headman condemns it as "a bourgeois toy" and commands that it be burnt (Sijie ...

Sunday School Class Teaching

applications, as a means of explaining these struggles (Elder, 1995). Neville (1995) has argued that religion is not a static or ...

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...

Educational And Instructional Technology

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

Limited-Term Employment Contracts : Spain

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

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...

Language Learning Instruments Assessment

data in an assessment process. According to Greenhalgh (1997), reliability and validity begin with an explicit statement of the s...

Children With Learning Disabilities and Failure Statistics' Data Collection

that the process of evaluating the subjects and providing for questionnaire responses is an element of consideration in evaluating...

Gender and Media

it is also important to recognize the way common standards, including stereotyping and the creation of the double standard, have b...

Professional Context of Lifelong Learning

may not be enough to spark motivation or improve performance. Lifelong learning has been viewed as one way of defining motivation...

Human Development and Its Major Theories

social psychology are one and the same; that organizations are the result of "repressed desires and ambivalent memories of ancient...

Higher Education and the Preferable Choice of Distance Learning

summer school at no cost and so they instead prompt students to enroll in another facility for a nominal fee, or take an appropria...

Case Study on an Elementary School's Student Assessment Process

learning and performance. The different methods account for students who are better able to demonstrate learning through a project...

Interrogation Policy Analysis and Abu Ghraib Prison Prisoner Torture

in the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Although attempts have been made to blame this abuse on "low-level personnel" at the facility rather ...

Technical Professional Success Strategies

students to attend universities that would otherwise provide logistical challenges. Of course, distance learning is not peculiar t...

Faust, Dimitrovsky, and Shacht's Naming Difficulties in Children with Dyslexia

subject population of 30 students, 15 of whom have been diagnosed with dyslexia and 15 typically functioning peers in Grades 3-4 a...

Immigrant Communities and Learning Needs Addressed by Public Schools

the nature of bilingual education have urged support for ESL programming in many educational settings. In recent years, ESL and...

Task Analysis of Marianne's Activity Participation Observation

toileting. Marianne was then reminded of the steps for toileting outlined above. One strategy that staff put into place to help...

Mathematics and Peer Tutoring Benefits

of homogeneously and heterogeneously grouped teams and the impact on gifted and talented students (Melser, 1999). Because the col...

Observable and Cognitive Learning

of it being instrumental in establishing a relationship between ones ultimate successes as an individual entity of motivation that...

'Araby' by James Joyce and Growing Up

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

Education and Social Cognition

cognition indicates that the mind is an active force that "constructs ones reality, selectively encodes information, performs beha...

Do Humans Manage Information Systems or are Information Systems Managing Humans?

dependent on their computers could not work. Information systems manage us, not the other way around. Information systems affec...

Leveraging the Appraisal System and the Potential Introduction of a Performance Related Pay System at the UNHCR

This 67 page paper looks at the way that performance appraisals may be leverage to create value and how they may help with the int...

Computer Law Understanding and the Significance of System Administrators

act maybe hard for the system administrators as it is lengthy, with 75 sections and a total of 16 schedules. However, this...

Australia's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

Wilbert Rideau Case Study Analysis of the Louisiana Correctional System

man was convicted of murder he was sentenced to death if the death penalty was available at the time (LaBranche, 2001). When Wilbe...