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Andrew Cherlin's Introduction to Public and Private Families

we spend most of our personal lives, it is within this context that we make decisions about personal concerns, like whether to mar...

Adult Education, College Instruction, and Electronic Learning

back before the first microcomputer was released during the late 1970s. It, in fact, goes all the way back to 1957, when Sputnick,...

'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 ...

Social Learning and Social Control

genders. "Testosterone exerts powerful effects on human bodies, helping make them stronger and bigger. It also increases sex dri...

College Classroom Analysis and the Concepts of Symbolic Interactionism and Structural Functionalism

a bit of wisdom that is attached to the structural-functionalist school of thought. In looking at the college classroom from the f...

Children with Learning Disabilities and Positive Outcome Strategies

Working with Students with Specific Disabilities, 2002). LDs are characterized by problems in use of listening, speaking, reading,...

Learning Lessons from Enron's Bankruptcy

ignored their warnings (Saragosa, 2002). Skilling insisted that since he was not an accountant himself, he should not be expected ...

Childhood and Its Secret According to Dr. Maria Montessori

olds from low income families. The schools began opening up in the United States in 1910. In the 1920s however, because of their c...

Complex Thinking Skills and Cooperative Learning

thinking. Because the act or process of thinking is so complex in and of itself, it is helpful to create visions that make it simp...

Brain Dominance and Various Learning Styles

dominant student (Freed and Parsons, 1997). However, this traditional way of teaching does not take into account -- at any point -...

4 Questions on Organizational Theory Answered

Theories Senges book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, largely restates many of the...

Cochlear Implants in Children and Learning Processes

the stove at her grandmothers house can do the same thing. In other words, she is able to generalize that the stove is used for co...

Living, Loving, and Learning by Leo F. Buscaglia

the US educational system. For example, take the problem of deciding on a curriculum that fits the needs of all school children....

Gifted Classroom Underachiever Manipulation and Psychology

of learning as there are those studying it, but several persist in form and content. Cognitive and cognitive-behavioral theories ...

Theory, Skills, and Standards of Physical Education

levels of health awareness and personal wellness goals. Students must understand how to best deal with stress, disease prevention ...

Education and Roadblocks to Communication

begin to see the dilemma teachers face when planning a lesson(Cross 89). Even with these diagnostic tools to aid them, teachers a...

Alternative Learning Perspectives

In a paper consisting of ten pages alternative learning from a cultural perspective is explored as a relevant choice in a contempo...

Supervisors and Type A And B Personalities

* Does not experience the Type-As typical insecurity and hostility (Friedman and Ulmer). Type B personalities tend to be far easi...

Past Slavery Patterns

only tolerated and accepted, but also embraced as part of daily life (Anonymous, 2001). In most early societies, slavery seems to...

Benefits of Learning Spanish as a Second Language

being able to communicate with these classmates. Of course when we travel we come across Spanish speaking people everywhere, and ...

German Expansion Efforts of Wal Mart

In forty pages the problematic expansion of Wal Mart into the German market is examined in an overview of background, strategies, ...

How Teachers Can Avoid Making 25 Mistakes

problems. Public humiliation, such as standing in a corner, placing ones nose in a circle on the board, or allowing other students...

Film Director Gordon Parks

background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...

Children and Fairytales

that some children might find fairy tales to be a bit overwhelming. However, it is this precise extent of interaction that expert...

How Incredible Odds Against Them Were Overcome by Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

to construct a code for living that would be world-renowned. One of his favorite stories concerned a formative period in hi...

Teacher Advisory Unit Development

family is also considered an extremely valuable component in the substance abuse awareness unit being developed in this paper. ...

Distance Learning and Education Online

and globalization of business. The University Alliance This site also brings together several traditional colleges...

Learned Helplessness and Interdependence Theories

helplessness. Growing up as the child of an alcoholic parent creates a great deal of pressure to handle home front issues at a ve...