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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...

General Overview of Project Based Learning

mathematics, and writing achievement" (Stites, 1998). It has long been argued that the more involvement the student has in planni...

Human Learning and Computer Technology

heavy reading and/or composition requirements. When third grade students are able to apply the touch-type method of keyboarding, ...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Treatment of Mental Illness

more common in boys than girls (Silka and Hauser, 1997). Determining the cause of retardation can be difficult and hard to pinpoin...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Interventions

In five pages this literature review considers noninvasive treatment of learning disorders, mental retardation, and mental illness...

Barney, Sesame Street, and the Colors Yellow and Purple

and love, was nothing like Sesame Street. Instead of the sophistication of Sesame Street (which, interestingly enough, had gone fr...

Learning Theories of Piaget and Miller

This paper provides a comparison of the learning theories put forth by Piaget and Miller. The author discusses Piaget's Developme...

Health Education and Technology

problem with the approaches of the past, which were to hand out pamphlets at health care centers, was that the pamphlets did not a...

Difficulties Presented by Consonant Elisions in English as a Second Language

the proper manner in which to utilize the language, partly for their own benefit and partly for the benefit of foreign speakers. ...

Lifelong Education and Globalization

being developed as a means by which to create such commodities faster, cheaper and within "laboratories or non-traditional environ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Past Slavery Patterns

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

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,...

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. ...

Classroom Management and Cooperative Learning

time to teach students the necessary social and personal interaction skills will reap great benefits in the classroom in many ways...

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,...

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 ...

Learning Differences Between Adolescents and Adults

behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...

Continuing Educaiton and the Application of Theory

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...

Adult Education Curriculum Defined

The contents will also need to be put together according to the needs of the class that is being taught. There has also been evide...

Education and Constructivism

which an individual learns and knows things, such as: * Knowing comes from the active and proactive nature of learners actions (Ho...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

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 ...