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Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Standardized Testing and its History

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

Education Reflections

food for thought on this concept. Another phenomenon is that of Harry Potter where it had been suggested that it was the first tim...

Article Reviews on the Educational System

and social interaction skills needed (Reich, DATE). Reich places great emphasis on symbolic analysis and argues that America train...

Criminal Justice and Various Educational Strategies

appropriate way students are able to obtain a full and eclectic spectrum of what is being taught. Of course, not every subject ne...

Defining Characteristics of Learning Disabilities

disabilities and those who need special education or related services (U.S. Department of Education, 1997, p. 1; 2002). The defi...

Physical Education and Educational Planning Principles Application

(Lumpkin, 1997). Standards. Assuming that a district develops and maintains a vision of focusing on wellness, there must b...

New Zealand's Inequality in Education

what is expected of all partners in the system and thirdly, it does not take enough account of the fact that students have differe...

Educators and Development of Technology Staff

In twelve pages this paper examines 3 journal articles pertaining to the development of technology staff in an educational setting...

Nursing Practice and Atherosclerosis

1997). It is generally believed that atherosclerosis results from a combination of factors, which include: hemodynamic stress (hyp...

Citizenship Educational Curriculum

religious affiliations. It encompasses passing laws to protect the community, state and country, while ensuring that the rights o...

Children Between Ages Six and Nine and Maria Montessori's Educational Theories

walked across the room -- the child stopped, walked across the room to the same point, and then came back and finished the work....

Issues in Minority Education

must come. When black Americans were first freed, the desire to become educated was strong. Being able to read and write, they...

Teacher Mediation and Educational Interactive Media

distance education is that many of the teachers do not feel they are qualified to successfully coordinate interactive teaching wit...

Adult Education and the Theories of Program Design and Development

plus enough reading, and arithmetic to run their households, but that was all (Flaceliere 56). Ancient sources tell us, moreover, ...

Modern Competition and Educational Importance

specific job - say adding a part on an assembly line - and then they would continue to do that job day in, day out for years, unti...

University Honor Codes

to be self-regulating, although as Georgia College (2002) notes, over the years the focus has changed. In the majority of colleges...

Overview of Pragmatism

Scientific reasoning or experimental reasoning is a branch of logic that follows along Deweys pragmatic combination of deduction a...

Educational Tool of Blogging

in which participants take discussions where they will. In education, Weblogs provide a venue in which students can gain individu...

Educational Supervision vs. Administration

in the clinical supervision model to help teachers improve their instructional skills. Clinical supervision in this case is the ...

Traditional Scheduling vs. Block Scheduling

class for a longer period of time (Irmsher, 1996). For example: * Alternative day schedules mean that six or eight courses are spr...

TESOL Educator Effectiveness

language, including listening, speaking, reading and writing so as to convey these lessons to ESOL students. It is important for T...

The African American Student Population and Urban Educational Policy

this country. The Problem With African American Education in America First, it is important to recognize that in fact th...

Froebel's Contributions to Montessori Schools

much credence outside of his native country, but in the nineteenth century the first kindergarten units were opened in British pri...

An Overview of the Time Period 1910-1919

if it was inherited, if she was married. The first suffrage parade took place in 1910, but it wouldnt be until 1919 that the ninet...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Education Study and The Sick Role by Talcott Parsons

"(1) a person is exempted from ordinary social obligations; (2) a...

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...

Contemporary Classroom Invention of Music and Montessori

childhood education. She would not only enact an educational methodology which would directly aid the societally disadvantaged ch...