The study in progress has actually grown out of my personal observations and interactions with my students inside and outside the classrooms. ... Culture has become a vehemently significant issue in connection with teaching English in a country where English is not the mother tongue. ... The intended learning outcomes of the new teaching: A Study in Practice During Spring Semester 2009, I taught the course "English 303: Short Stories" designed to introduce students to the short fiction of pre-modern and modern periods through short stories of England, Europe and Americas. ... An...

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This paper critically examines the varied approaches to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP). ... True critical pedagogy thus begins to take on a 'political agenda' (Weimer: 2009), rendering EAP instruction far too complicated and too far fetched from its actual purpose; giving students the skills to develop their use of English language in their university studies. ... By the same token they profess that students should be free 'to question and shape the education they are being offered'. ... I am a Science student, entering my second year of university study in...

• Word Count: 1625
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Within America there is a large population of peoples who have been, and continue to be, oppressed in this land of the free. ... A study by Brophy and Good showed that teachers' expectations had a direct impact on their interactions with students. ... When a child speaks little, or no, English in the home or outside of the classroom environment, they may need intensive help in learning and mastering the English language. ... This is especially troubling when considering the results of a study by Armstrong. ... The media has been quick to report this, many times noting studies that poi...

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Merit goods would be under-provided in a pure free-market economy. ... John Dickie (2000) identified fundamental difficulties that students with Pacific nations backgrounds face in tertiary studies from a survey of from Wellington College of Education. These are: difficulty speaking out in class, difficulty approaching the lecturer and difficulty with English at a tertiary level. ... The "gender gap" (the difference between gender performance by subject) may also be closed in this type of system, if enough of one sex, being totally surrounded by that sex wanted to take up a subject and study i...

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Throughout the motion picture Dead Poet Society, starring Robin Williams as an English teacher, a group of young men begins to understand the experience of self-fulfillment in education. ... The second and most significant major quarrel in this movie occurs when the English teacher Mr. Keating, who teaches with free spirit, gets reprimanded by Mr. ... Keating believes that students should have free spirits, question authority, and learn only what is accurate, and useful in life. ... He also states that Neil would be at home studying chemistry if it weren't for Mr. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the article "I Just Wanna Be Average" (We Are America, Page 211), the author, Mike Rose goes on to say that his English teacher, Jack MacFarland, taught and approved him to be aroused motivation. ... Then, the teacher, who was my math class instructor and gave me motivation to study, hit his yardstick on my desk brought me back to the real world where subjects did not relate to my interest and dreamers are related to dummies. ... Learning how to think frees our dependency on others for knowledge. ... After that time, I could devote myself to study to go to high ranked university. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Also the results of the testing must be broken down into certain categories: poverty, race and ethnicity, disability, and limited English proficiency so that no group is left behind. ... Minorities tend to be in the lower classes and a good percentage of these students have a limited English proficiency. Through this act minority students enroll in education programs in order to simplify a program operation, which enables students to learn English as quickly as possible. ... Other changes in the policy are efforts to keep are schools safe and drug-free. ... Urban public schools also ha...

• Word Count: 2518
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This movie, which is set in a male boarding school emphasizing an English style of education, depicts a very proper school setting with strong masculine ties. ... The boys face the challenge that is set before them (by the new "radical" teacher's ideology) to become something that their parents or teachers would never suspect: "free thinkers." ... Standing him up straight, she reminds him to do his studies, and that they would see him at Thanksgiving. ... But, with the arrival of the new English teacher, the older students have classes where the style of teaching is unconventio...

• Word Count: 1812
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• Grade Level: High School

Whereas in Hectors Lessons the boys are free to learn in their own way and most of his lessons start of bizarrely. ... Hectors general studies lessons are totally out of the ordinary and not expected by a modern day audience to watch his lessons and the things that happen can see the comic side of it but it doesn't quite lessen the blow of some of the things that occur. ... Hector: English it's banned. ...

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Sir Ken Robinson is an English author, speaker and committed supporter of education and the arts. He has been writing educational books since 1977 and contributes very respected texts in the study of art education. ... The constraints and benchmarks are lifted, and the 'less-able' or creative students are in a sense left free of boundaries, but is the creative spark already lost because it had never been explored? ... This is especially worrying for students studying teaching. ... I think it would be relevant to students studying arts and education, such as myself, because many stud...

• Word Count: 943
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• Grade Level: High School

Two years later as I began to work on this essay for my University of Washington English class, I remembered this puzzling feeling. ... I even see this every day at school, when students don't study for a test and then fail, or when an athlete doesn't show up for practice and loses their role as a starter. ... Here, Rodriguez's education is creating a preconceived notion for him, that his parents are not as good as others because they can not speak English as well. ... It is up to the people themselves to break free of this control, to recognize that education itself is not a fi...

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For example, I like English and I have observed that students at this age enjoy acting out different characters. ... Another section in chapter two of our text describes an English teacher using cooperative learning groups to discuss a novel they are studying (50). ... Standard 4: My Teaching Field I have chosen the field of English and I believe there are multiple things that can be done to teach this. ... I believe in grouping the students to discuss, study, and read, as well as, journaling their thoughts and ideas. ... Then, students are free to ask questions and learn what is right o...

• Word Count: 2071
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• Grade Level: High School

According to authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman of "The Creativity Crisis" , a dilemma that has risen in recent studies is that the public's "creativity quotient" has steadily crept downward since 1990. ... The aspects of creativity must be applied in studies not taught. ... Math can provide an intellectual creativity by developing a quirky tune to remember that formula you just learned or even in English by hosting poem readings once a week to construct a more creative mind. ... Most students view this class as an extended free period. ...

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Frankly speaking, I was his English teacher and often saw him fall asleep during my class. ... When a person is left free then they can think of to find a solution for themselves. ... This theory is very appropriate for client cases discussed in this study because some emphasis on the following aspects: -  i) The client is responsible for self-awareness and action. ii) The focus is devoted to the phenomenon and the inner world of the client. iii) The client is encouraged to understand the real perception. iv) The therapeutic relationship maintained between counselor and client. v) The main co...

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Historically there has been a Euro-restrictive view of mathematics when it is confined to study of written evidence: mathematics initially arose from a need to count and record numbers (Joseph, 1991). ... Bishop (1990) argues against the idea that mathematics is universal and therefore culture free. ... Roberts (nd) found that although it was expected that mathematics be taught for this reason in English, rather than Pintjantjatjara, the community did not generally discuss it's mathematical discussions in English. ...

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The house system is a traditional feature of schools in the English-speaking world, particularly in Commonwealth countries, and originated in England. ... Prior to Kane's arrival, Parker instituted a "free market" policy which allowed department heads to encourage housemasters to offer certain courses, while housemasters were to convince department heads to assign certain teachers to their houses. ... This rift was demonstrated in an exchange between Wesley Chase, a housemaster, and Betsy Drobna, the chairperson of the English department. ... She attacked Wesley Chase for im...

• Word Count: 2985
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: High School