Introduction The purpose of this essay is to compare three empirical articles used in our comparison matrix to show the correlation between socialization and self- identity. ... The three empirical articles utilized as it relates to our doctoral identity were designed to show the importance of both external factors in particular academic support in the development of doctoral learner's knowledge and self-identity. ... Article 2 authors stresses how developmental network and sociocultural learning interplay in developing academic self-identity and success. ... Baker and Lattuca study fo...

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How All Middle-Schoolers Can Be "Gifted" Students are going to compare themselves with their peers regardless if it is healthy for their identities or not. ... Participation in a gifted programs can lead to healthy identity recognition. Distinction and affiliation with other peers provides a positive identity messages. ... Middle schools are able to help adolescents develop healthy identities by helping achieve success in at least one area of the curriculum. By promoting individual expertise the school can produce a healthy identity for the young adolescent....

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I feel important in this world because I have an identity, I have a culture, I love my birthplace, its beaches, how it smell, that is my home. ... I doubt them the person that I am, my values, my priorities in life, my identity, and my personality. ...

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Clearly by reading his statement we can conclude that culture and identity as a nation is very important to him and many others, and that by bringing another language into a country that already has so many languages may increase the employment rate for Chinese foreigners and decrease it for the natives of Zimbabwe. ... The kids will be "brainwashed" to think and learn like a Chinese individual who in turn may get rid of their collective identity as a Zimbabwean citizen. ...

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We must ask why Grant has not already begun to do this, why he has so far incorporated "nothing about dignity, nothing about identity, nothing about loving and caring," into his teachings of "what they wanted [him] to do, teach reading, writing, and arithmetic." ... He realizes the importance and perhaps even the distinct existence of the black peoples' identity through a series of important talks with Jefferson, as well as the Reverend....

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The use of uniforms will strip identity, stifle creativity, and unnecessarily burden the families that cannot afford them. ... In both cases, individual identity is stripped away and the subject is forced to appear as the same outward appearance as every other subject. ...

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Most people wish they could relive their high school days. I was one of those people until I began college. I've attended several colleges since high school and noticed several differences and similarities between the two. In high school, you are limited to culture and people. Most students only...

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Illiterate people lose their right to an identity. Names or ID's aside, the right to an actual identity is defined by a person making his or her original choices "You don't choose, you take your wishes from somebody else." ...

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Teenage years are when students develop their own identities and sense of self; including their own sense of style. ... Uniform use may very well be pushing back the creative flow of many a child who are yearning to form an identity and create their own forms of self expression. ...

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Expression Some schools, such as the one I went to during high school, had a really strict dress code. Students couldn't express themselves for dreading of getting sent home or even suspended from school. Schools should let their students have freedom of their own expressions. Ei...

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There have always been many different opinions about state responsibilities and how far the state intervenes in everybody's life by taking care of their social needs. A recent online survey tried to find out how the population thinks about this issue by asking over six thousands adults from Britain,...

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A society lacking a socially stable or culturally acceptable identity dissipates into every city-street and small rural town making up this nation. Classes and stereotypes are now the fundamental elements that piece together the diverse areas of the United States. Children today flood into the man...

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Black English and some other dialects of English differ from standard English, the "accepted" dialect. Students who are in American schools may be penalized or considered less intelligent because their dialect appears ungrammatical even though it has a regular system of grammatical rules and is sp...

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A large portion of sociological theories comes from statistics collected from the societies or the society that is being studied. This helps make conclusions about changes or patterns so we can get a better idea of how society functions the way it does, what we should change, and how to go about ch...

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Education is supposed to be the uplifting of your mind, but nowadays education has become the stripping of culture and identity. Most people don't like to talk about social issues such as racism, and sexism because they are admitting that these issues still exist. The same goes for education in t...

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Postman refers to his narratives as "gods" in the sense that they tell of origins and futures, give meaning to the world and provide a sense of "community", "personal identity" "continuity" and "purpose". ...

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Should Ebonics Be Taught in School Ebonics is a language system that has become a major part of English used in the United States. This characteristic of speech is spoken especially (but not exclusively) in African American communities in urban areas and in the south. I believe that children de...

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Columbine High School, Virginia Technical College and Sandy Hook Elementary School – the names of these schools will forever be etched into the memory of this country. A total of seventy-two lives combined, were taken during three of the deadliest shootings in American history. The most recent sch...

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What if Almaty International School is considering a new policy that will require all students to wear uniforms? Do you agree with your principal or not? The idea of putting a policy in place that would require all students to wear school uniforms is certainly a terrible idea. Why? It is a terrible ...

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There are many positive outcomes of cooperative learning according to Sokal (2003, p. 49), "formation of attitudes and values, pro social communication skills, perspective taking, integrated identity and higher thinking processes." ...

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Barbara Mellix (1999) in "From Outside, In" explains how a person of different ethnicity is also able to succeed in appropriating his or her own academic discourse through determination and diligence. She reports her own childhood as a little girl of two diverse, but similar languages. One of her ...

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Issue 14: Is Full Inclusion of Disabled Students Desirable? What is inclusive education? Inclusive education consists of including all children despite their ethnic identity, disability, or where they are at in society in terms of socioeconomic status. Inclusion means to advocate against the idea...

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In addition, the effective way to bring civic engagement from the margin to the center is to intentionally link it to institutional priorities, involves preparing students to understand their own identities, and to communicate with people who are different from themselves. ...

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As a senior in high school, I experienced a class with a teacher who had a great impact on my life. Mr.Chanler, a geography teacher at Cypress Creek High School, showed me the side of him that led me to believe in Machiavelli's novel, "Qualities of a price." Although geography seemed to be one of my...

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"Playing," goes far beyond the sandbox of childhood days, and has a place in the learning environments of all ages, and developmental levels. Neuroscience findings show that play contributes to brain development, in which neural pathways are influenced in their development through exploration, think...

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