Despite these above obstacles and with no educational research to back him up, Egan explains that by breaking down the imaginative lives of our students into general characteristics we can learn how to engage and involved our students effectively. ... It is through these extremes and limits that we are able to see the everyday existence in a new light, and from there we are able to learn where the familiar fits and what it means. By using a different perspective than the ones our students see everyday we are able to better engage them in learning and imagination while we are teaching them th...

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Fortunately, Socrates has a small group of people who listen to him and learn from him about how to think. ... For example, no one would blame him for teaching the student badly. ... Therefore, she also discusses with me that if reality has this kind passion teacher then the student must learn from them and she set Socrates as a perfect model of a good teacher. ... What I learn about philosophy is that a philosopher often deals with knowledge of deep thinking. ... Yet, those who learn from their mistake will ultimately have success. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Membership is automatic if one learns the background information and the linguistic conventions that are needed to read, write, and speak effectively. ... Schools that neglect to impart this core knowledge leave their students seriously deprived and our democracy weakened. ... On the first diagnosis, Hirsch's diagnosis, what students lack is shared information. ... Their vision of literacy makes the information they learn valuable, makes the content rewarding. ... At an early age when their memories are most retentive, children have an almost instinctive urge to learn specific triba...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hence, it is the expectation that the students will "follow" the teacher mandated procedure, and by doing so will learn (Geahigan, 1998a, p. 293). ... The reason that the students engage in the process is due to the question(s) posed and the amount of background knowledge that the students possess; students do not engage in the process because it is in itself an activity (Geahigan, 1998a; Geahigan 1998b). ... Conversely, the goal of critical literacy is to make students aware of who obtains and possesses power, allowing the students to question their world (Freire, 1970; Macedo, 1994). ... ...

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The "Allegory of the Cave" Socrates sums up his ideas and puts it into a conversational from between him and his student Glucan. ... The mind's activates when we learn about the truth and look at things from a different angle. ... Socrates explains two kinds of learning in the conversation with his student one that is told and expected to be believed and the one is learned by a person's own experience through the life. ... The second part is where we learn things from our experience for example, when the prisoner is freed he goes outside and discovers what he did not. ... A...

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• Grade Level: High School

Concrete Experience Adults learn differently than children. ... Finally, they have a motivation to learn. ... I do feel that depending on the prior computer experience of the learner I could hand out a manual to the students and let them work through the information by themselves while also giving them the specific information they will need to be successful learners. ... They all agree the adults learn differently and therefore must be taught differently. ... We want to have a choice in what and how we learn. ...

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The first being the idea that learners learn by constructing new knowledge that is meaningful to them. ... Carol gave the students a map and expected the students to already know how to measure real distances using map representations. ... This is shown when Carol provided the information by explanation to the students. ... Group work in Carol's class allows social interactions between students. ... Both of these limitations outline that Carol's teacher centered approach does not support student learning. ...

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He learns to dance and he learns that he has a side of him, not realized before, that wants to experience love and pleasure. ... One of the ovearall ideas that Harry learns from the Magic Theater is that he must learn to laugh. ... Another overall theme that Harry learns about is sensual pleasure. ... Pablo's role in teaching Harry was that of a teacher who helps a student explore new boundaries, in this case Harry found out about drugs, alchohol, womanizing and homosexuality. ... Harry also learns that he has total control over his life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Socrates has been called the greatest philosopher of all time. He was born in 470 B.C. and is one of the most intriguing philosophers of all time. Intriguing, but also confusing and misunderstood. Many later philosophers would claim that Socrates was their inspiration. To many religions, he w...

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After explaining it, the teacher usually asks the students to make example of the grammar pattern. ... Nevertheless, when I learn grammar using functional approach, I fell confident in conveying the messages because I am not focus on the rules, but on what I want to convey. ...

• Word Count: 1309
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate