People have individual differences that show different styles of thinking and different methods of representing information. ... I know that I will rely on the teacher directed, traditional, pattern of teaching. ... Knowing that I am both a concrete and sequential person a lot of facts will be tied into my teaching strategies along with information being prepared sequentially. Although the teaching styles of my concrete sequential self will be very clear and straight forward, they are lacking some traits that may be beneficial to my classroom when used collectively with my own. ... Since...

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Many of the levels have been transitioned to newer levels more based on the "doing" aspect of learning and teaching. ... The revised edition has been better tailored to the modern and evolved, standards of teaching that the old Bloom's Taxonomy no longer suited and whose methods had grown outdated. While many of the methods are older views they are still useful and effective. This is not to say all the old methods are adaptable to modern levels of performance in education. ...

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Subject, Methods, Approaches, History of Psychology The subject of the history of psychology - understanding of the psyche (its nature, origin, functions, mechanisms) at different stages of the progressive development of science. Methods of the history of psychology. The main objective methods of the history of psychology is 1) survey and study of the sources, and then 2) the internal organization of the material, which includes facts, theories, laws, concepts. 1) At the stage of the study information sources (works of scientists, archives and memories of historical figures, historical materia...

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At the age of 13 Edwards entered the Collegiate School, later named Yale, in New Haven where his father's teachings and lessons were only reassured (unknown). ... Edwards however, was often criticized by his peers for being over zealous in his methods for obtaining his goals (Cady 258). ... "It provides a pleasing symmetry to the shape of Edwards" thought, it propound a hard teaching", serves as a good summarization of the feelings of his peers and critics (Griffin). ...

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Alfred North Whitehead and Sigmund Freud both wrote pieces indirectly dealing with the imagination. In his essay, "Universities and Their Function,"" Whitehead stresses that a university can be valuable only "and only if "it provides an imaginative form of gaining knowledge. He repeatedly states t...

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In effect, Descartes uses the first meditation as a sort of learning exercise teaching his readers to learn to doubt everything they believe in order to come to basic truths. ... This allows the reader to feel more in control of the argument since he is more likely to accept as true that which he feels that he discovers by his own methods. ...

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In doing so, critics continue to mistake the fact that Emerson offers in his later work and its focus on metonymy something of a "counteraesthetics" to his own earlier conception of metaphorical nature. (11) In this later work that conceives of a natural history or natural method of mind in organic, biological relation to matter, a conception informed by changing views of both matter and mind found in the nineteenth-century natural science he observes in his writings, Emerson revises his poetics of transcendental idealism by shifting the rhetorical grounding from metaphor to metonymy. ...

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