Pedagogy of the Oppressed In this philosophical book, the author enlightens us about the relationship between the "oppressor" and the "oppressed" in terms of the student-teacher relationship. ... This book poses an interesting comparison between the oppressor and the oppressed as it outlines a symbolic parasitic relationship between the two. ... While reading this book, it reminded me of The Prince by Machiavelli, an inspirational book that glorified the individuality of the student "soldier", the dependence of a teacher, while at the same time maintaining the values of the larger communi...

• Word Count: 553
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many schools have experienced protests to the book being taught in the educational curriculum, and in their libraries. ... It came from his belief that, "the pervasive use of the n-word makes it difficult for the reader to understand or absorb the book.... It is the use of the word, 219 times, that makes it such a frequently challenged book. ... Keeping this book in the curriculum gives students to address all the problems that the, "n-word," comes with. ... The stance that one usually takes for banning a book, is due to some element of inappropriateness or exposing students to ...

• Word Count: 837
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Flatland is not only an intriguing and engaging book about geometry itself, it also teaches valuable lessons about what a negatively multicultural society would be like - one with distinct classes who are viewed as "better" or "worse" than others. ... I am really excited to use this book, along with other resources to help with learning activities that correspond to the book's topics, to increase my students' awareness of multiculturalism and provide a platform that presents mathematics in a new and life-application-level way. ... I will use the book Flatland along with other Multicu...

• Word Count: 1407
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this book, the authors explain to us why they believe American higher education is in deep trouble. ... One of the concepts discussed in this book was sustaining and disruptive innovation. ... After reading the book, I too believe that American higher education is in fact at a crossroads. ... In the book, the author used a great example to explain the threat of disruptive innovations. ... As said in the book, the tendency to emulate Harvard is widespread, but not universal. ...

• Word Count: 2146
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a book titled Japanese Society Today Tadashi Fukutake summed up the effects that the past had on the Japanese educational system of today. ... The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Japan compiled a book called The Japan of Today and in the book it is stated that, "The central concept in Japanese education today is to produce self-reliant citizens of a peaceful and democratic state and community with respect for human rights and a love for truth and peace" (115). ... Charles Grinnell Cleaver agrees with these points and says in his book Japanese and Americans: Cultural Parallels and Parad...

• Word Count: 1948
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His premises (from his 1987 book, Cultural Literacy ) are: • In an anthropological perspective, the basic goal of education is acculturation, the transmission to our children of the specific information shared by the adults of the group or polis. ... This book explains why we need to make some very specific educational changes in order to achieve a higher level of national literacy. ... It focuses on what I conceive to be the great hidden problem in American education, and I hope that it reveals this problem so compellingly that anyone who is concerned about American education will b...

• Word Count: 2166
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Leadership is a journey of discovery, not only for myself, but a discovery of other individual's potential that I also may learn from them. It is an expression of a person at his or her best whose goal is to transform something better and to develop the imagination and character other people possess...

• Word Count: 522
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mary Wollstonecraft matured as a political thinker and in 1792 wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women, a book which argues against the forces that kept women ignorant and the shallowness they were encouraged to engage in. In the book Wollstonecraft attacked the educational limitations that kept women in a state of "witlessness and slavish dependence." ... The ideas in Wollstonecraft's book were truly revolutionary and caused immense controversy. ...

• Word Count: 1163
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the first four situations mentioned in the book in which students are using racial epithets in talking to one another and a male student is engaging in physical contact with other students, I would follow the classroom discipline procedure. ...

• Word Count: 351
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rather, he was putting effort into getting a deeper understanding of each book, but found the themes useless or inapplicable to his life. ... We see that Rodriguez was trying very hard to find the meanings of each book he read, and yet he was too focused on "getting educated " to apply those meanings into his own life. ... When Rodriguez finally expanded his field from book knowledge to heart knowledge, he was able to connect everything he had previously learned and apply it to his life. ...

• Word Count: 1364
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his book, Ain't No Makin' It, Jay MacLeod tells how a group of poor students in a particular school were able to relate to a teacher (Jimmy Sullivan) who spoke their "language."" " It was cool, cuz like you walk in there you talk to Jimmy, and you know Jimmy's real cool, - said one of his students. ... In their book, Social Foundations of Educational Decisions, Fischer and Thomas state that distinctive things about a subculture (including language and behavior) have a definite influence on a child's learning style (26-27) and that "informal education- "which occurs...

• Word Count: 1645
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Martin Luther King addressed issues in his book "I Need a Dream" which he felt must be changed within America so as to be considered the great nation of which he dreamt. ... In his book, Martin Luther King talks strongly against inequality with reference to the racial discrimination. ...

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Reaction The book offers insight criticism of American universities and colleges along with solutions that the authors think would reform the higher education system. ... The books has evoked responses, 75% of the book is simplistic hence there is no reason of more analysis and suggestions as ways of addressing the concrete issues....

• Word Count: 907
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The assignments were normally just answering the questions at the end of each chapter, which we could easily find the answers, simply some dates, names and locations of each events, in the book because they were usually in bold. Some answers were even in the back of the book, so we just copied. ...

• Word Count: 1253
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This book was very successful at showing the two sides of this issue: that those of the oppressed class have legitimate reasons for rejecting Euro-centrist approaches to instruction, and that members of the oppressing class carry with them assumptions that make multi-cultural education less than perfectly successful. ...

• Word Count: 653
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Essays are pointless, in the highest sense of the word. They are completely without meaningful purpose. Nothing new is learned or introduced through an essay, nothing is gained by writing 3-5 pages of what mostly consists of utter bullshit, and nothing is accomplished by wasting hours of our childho...

• Word Count: 537
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Abstract World Wide Web, or so called Internet, as a technology of information transmitting and a new media, has become the focus being paid much attention by the whole world in the twenty first century. It has been changing the way in a striking speed that people work, study, think, communicate, and even the style of living. So, in this new century, what impacts on earth does the Internet bring to the traditional education? What benefits and advantages will be when deploying information technology to the traditional education? What kind of responsibilities to education does Internet have? ...

• Word Count: 3507
• Approx Pages: 14
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Before moving on to possible solutions for our education system, I want to note an interesting point made in the final chapter of Ryan's book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart that is the basis for my thesis. ... In summing up what he feels parents can gain from his book on the inequalities of special education, Ong-Dean says, "One cannot reasonably expect privileged parents not to draw on their advantages but it might provoke some critical thoughts about the influence of their privileges and about what they might do to promote a more equitable system" (9). ...

• Word Count: 1473
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Manners to be Observed by Teachers and Students," is a volume of the book "The Revival of Religious Learning" written by Abū Ḥāmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazālī, better known as al-Ghazālī. ...

• Word Count: 882
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many students going to college feel they "already know enough English to get on in the world without studying more - especially literature" (Watson). There are many people who agree with this statement and probably some who disagree. An important factor that may sway a person's opinion would be...

• Word Count: 899
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most economists argues that it is not the physical capital or natural resources that determine the character and pace of its economic and social development, but its human resources. Developing countries must agree because they devote so much of their resources and capital into education. The late...

• Word Count: 765
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aristotle, a great philosopher, once said "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet," unaware that this fruit of education would one day be expensive. As students pass through their primary and secondary education, they are, in most cases, financially supported, making education vir...

• Word Count: 880
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In today's constantly changing economic and technological climate, retaining employment must require constant learning and relearning. At times, when corporations may even be overtaken by another corporation, employees may be required to unlearn previous sets of workplace behaviors completely and b...

• Word Count: 886
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In James Crawford's book "Language Loyalties" he says, " [ ] with immigration on the rise, as many as eighty languages are represented in some school districts exacerbating the difficulties of recruiting qualified teachers, assessing student skills, and communication with parents (1-2)." ...

• Word Count: 826
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The missions and programs of higher education in the United States have been debated since their founding. Missions have collected from the training of ministers to developing education for citizens, to preparing a workforce for agriculture and the mechanical arts. Programs from the United States ha...

• Word Count: 779
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate