The following quote is extracted from my personal field notes from HYPE on March 12th, 2015. ... " The quote extracted above, essentially depicts Vygotsky's theory in direct practice. The activity mentioned in the quote above, describes how all individuals were working with their respective characters and interacting with others, in an effort to learn about other characters in an engaging and meaningful way. ... The following is a quote extracted from my field notes at HYPE on April 10th, 2015: "After a couple of minutes of researching our various topics, the group came tog...

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It is interesting to compare how the two authors Rodriguez and Freire looked at the educational system differently. Yet, at the same time, there are some commonalities that overlap and support each others theory or views. Consider the following quote by Rodriguez. "The scholarship boy is a very...

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In my body paragraph I plan to eliminate run-on's, extra commas, and quotes that contradict my argument. ... I polished my argument by adding a better quote from Ravitch's article in this section of my essay, However, Diane Ravitch in "The Success of Charter Schools Is a Myth " disproves Guggenheim's claims by illustrating that "it would be foolish to believe that teachers alone can undo the damage caused by poverty and is associated burdens " (3). ...

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When Grant talks about only being able to teach what "they" want him to, I believe it's directly linked to the quotes of him talking to Paul of how he doesn't believe that he's "even a teacher," because "you have to believe to be a teacher." ...

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His legitimate claims that schools stigmatize wrong answers and have a subject hierarchy that denounces creativity are presented alongside humorous stories, quotes, and anecdotes. ... Furthermore, Sir Robinson quotes Picasso as saying, "all children are born artists. ...

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By stating his own narration, the students are expected to merely memorize his interpretation, which results in words and phrases loosing their significance, for example in a quote from Freire "four times four is sixteen; the capital of Para is Belem" (p. 52). ...

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Standardized Tests: Inaccurate and Unfair Evaluations While previous generations of American students have had to sit through tests, never have the tests been given so frequently and never have they played such a prominent role in schooling (Kohn 1). Kohn further asserts that "children are tested...

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In Crawford's work he quotes former Secretary of Education William Bennett in saying "[s]ince a common language is essential to American democracy, he says, "we should not be bashful about proclaiming fluency in this language as our educational goal" (5)." ...

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A popular reform movement with the moniker "cultural literacy" has been proposed (and widely published) by E.D.Hirsch, Jr. and collegues. Its approach maintains that for one to be well educated, one must own certain information or facts about our world, i.e., be "culturally literate". His premises (...

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Lennie Irvin's focus on debunking writing misconceptions, and on essay structure and content can be seen through this quote that outlines what he'll be going over in his essay: "We will start by clearing up some of those wild misconceptions people often arrive at college possessing. ...

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One thing that is compelling students to attend college courses is that they wish to broaden their educational horizons. By attending college, students expand their knowledge over a plethora of subjects, including classes for general education and specialized subjects for specific degrees as well. A...

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Throughout the essay, Freire gives his reader's all the pieces of the puzzle, through examples, quotes, and contradictions hoping that his readers could think creatively enough to put his whole puzzle together. ...

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It is the responsibility for a government to provide its people with their fundamental needs and promote a cohesive society. Needs such as food, clothing, shelter, safety, health-care and education, are all essential to a society as they are the foundation for a nation. "It was certainly by means ...

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Advances in economic wellbeing and growths in literacy rate are not the sole measures of social progress. While it can be argued that colonialism benefited Africans with respect to these dimensions of welfare, it can also be argued that colonialism impaired the overall quality of life in Africa. In ...

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This quote means that the testing policies enforced in public schools are making it more difficult for low-income students to achieve higher test scores, because they are forced to learn in a standardized and controlled manner. ...

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Across the world, girls are being stripped of their right to be educated. With the education of the millions of girls out of school not only will many harmful practices, including early marriage and trafficking become less common, whole communities will undergo substantial economic and social change...

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Last year the Guardian newspaper published an article quoting David Attenborough, who, in relation to environmental education observes that 'Climate change and habitat destruction are problems facing our generation and those of our children. ...

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Digital technologies form an important part in the education of a majority of the current student population – whom Prensky (2001), as quoted in Gu, Zhu, and Guo (2013), referred to as digital natives. ...

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Low-income parents are a product of the same "sorting machine- (the public school system) (Oakes, 75, quoting MacLeod) that their children are now experiencing, so they don't have the skills necessary to teach their children differently than they were taught. ...

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Technology Enhancements in Distance Education: The Digital Revolution and Communication Academia in Western culture is seemingly somewhat resistant to change (Jukes and McCain, 2000). An example given by Jukes and McCain pertaining to the rate of change in the United States due to advancements...

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Discuss teaching and classroom management strategies to incorporate children with Asperger's Syndrome in Mainstream Primary Classrooms. I have chosen this subject because one of the pupils in my stage two, year four class, has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and is treated by the school in accordance with that diagnosis. Since I have not encountered a student with this disorder before; I believe it would be a beneficial area for me to explore in depth and observe the relationship between theory and practice. In order to understand Asperger's syndrome a teacher mus...

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Society today is filled with technology; everywhere someone looks, there is a different piece of technology. Technology has proven to enhance the lives of humans in every way possible, especially in education. It has been used to engage students for classroom learning with it's bright touchscreens a...

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He quotes the Education Trust president Kati Haycock; "Many educators believe that poor kids and Latino kids and African American kids just aren't capable of learning to the same levels as other kids," which is demonstrated in their placement while in lower levels of education. ...

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The human experience has been stumped by a timeless question: What is the best way to advance the goals of society through successive generations? How do we pass on our knowledge and experiences to our children and teach them to strive for progress and betterment? To this end, we have adopted the means of education. Education is our culture's answer to such questions: with it, we should be able to give future generations the skills and information necessary to create a better world society. That's the idea, anyway. ...

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Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundati...

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