The general purpose of education is to give everyone an opportunity as a means to succeed in life by providing the perfect place for critical thinking and for personal opinions to develop. ... Freire continues to write, "The more students work at storing deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world.... I completely agree with Freire's argument and believe that education should provide tools and practice in critical thinking for students rather than absolute answers. ....

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The strategy behind this technique is to eliminate unsatisfactory textbooks at the stage of analysis so using a textbook can meet a learner's needs or expectations of having something concrete to work from and take home for further study. ... The role of the textbook in teaching and learning: Morever, English textbooks in teaching and learning is critical. ... Analysis of the interview data shows that the teacher articulated a cohesive, coherent practical theory. ... Conclusion This study to discuss a textbook evaluation checklist for standardized use at the elementary level, based on a ...

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The Defence of Duffer's Drift is a fundamental and yet insightful analysis of a small unit's tactics in defending a strategic objective given limited communications, resources, and manpower. ... In his brief analysis, the young Lieutenant made a major mistake by concluding that , " as the enemy were not within a hundred miles, there would be no need to place the camp in a state of defence till the following day."" ... A final and rather critical lesson learned was the creation of good clear fields of fire and massing of firepower. ...

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Both information and knowledge transfer are critical elements that are required to attain and maintain a competitive advantage. ... Interrelationships are critical determinants of whether or not there will be any information sharing or the exchange of skills and expertise. ... From the review, it is evident that Communities of Practice is a critical tool that can help businesses achieve organizational learning. However, the realization of this requires that there is a proper analysis of the individual's operations' at the workplace. ...

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Approximately 25 years ago, Livingston (1973) pointed out that while business schools were emphasizing problem-solving and decision making, an imbalance had been created between the ability to perform critical analysis, which tended to be over-developed, and the ability to take action and make things happen, which remained largely underdeveloped. ...

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A study of prognosis by House (30) illustrated the use of statistical tools of analysis. ... The analysis of variance was used as a test of significance. ... However, multivariate covariance analysis showed that the accuracy group had fewer errors, indicating that the quest for speed was not favorable in this respect. ...

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Siddiqui (2004), posits that technology is critical preparing pupils to live and learn successfully. ... Therefore, when they are exposed to internet they can explore and become active participants in the gathering, analysis, organizing and presenting of the information they find. ...

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The "Banking Concept- of Education- is Paulo Freire's careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship through two entirely different types of education, the banking concept of education and problem posing education. ... Because they apprehend the challenge as interrelated to other problem within a total context, not as a theoretical question, the resulting comprehension tends to be increasingly critical and thus constantly less alienated. ...

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Personally, I have untapped faith in the ability of education, through the medium of curriculum, to educate children to critically analyze themselves in relation to their community, understand the evils of their community, develop a vision of a better society, and bring about that vision. ... I believe that curriculum should be organized around real social problems of concern to students as well as others in society because helping students to strengthen their critical thinking, communication, analytical, and people skills only fortifies their subject-matter knowledge. ... Instruction and di...

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In order to be in a position to acquire knowledge one must already be rational in the minimal sense of having the dispositions to be consistent, to assess statements on relevant considerations, and to be critical of one's beliefs (Hamm, 2005). ... However one can argue that for individual to be critical tinkers and problem solvers they need to be knowledgeable. ...

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Introduction This report is written to discuss about the continuous professional development courses for teachers. The discussion includes the advantages and disadvantages comes from it, the cost,benefits involved and also the targeted audiences. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) involves i...

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(p.205) Moreover, group work may also lead to academic gains such as transferrable skills mentioned above like critical thinking, reasoning and problem solving and metalanguage skills like learning to learn. ... As mentioned in the very beginning, under normal circumstances, we would have conducted a needs analysis to determine the learners' interests in order to involve the learners in their own learning processes and by doing this, we avoid the traditional role of teacher as the only source of information in the classroom. ...

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The aims of the course are: To introduce you to a range of major authors and works of the period To introduce you to key themes, issues and problems To develop a broad historical understanding prose production at this time To develop literary critical skills of contextualization, close analysis, and argumentation To further develop your research skills and to prepare you for the research paper By the end of the module, students should be able to demonstrate: An ability to relate literary texts to relevant historical, social and cultural contexts An ability to identify central themes in the p...

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The Need for the "LEARNING ORGANIZATION- The nature of the environment has changed dramatically due to significant economic, social and technological changes over the past decades. Organizations today are confronted with increasing environmental turbulence arising from global competition, the intro...

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