A Challenging Learning Experience
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A 5 page research paper that offers a first-person account of a challenging learning experience personal to the writer/tutor. This account discusses the writer’s feelings and attitudes toward the experience in terms of classical conditioning and negative reinforcement. The writer then relates how the learning was finally accomplished in terms of the constructivist paradigm. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khchlex.rtf

A Comparison of Educational Perspectives: Whitehead and Chaudhuri
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This 8 page paper considers the perspectives of Alfred North Whitehead in his work The Aims of Education, and Haridas Chaudhuri in his work The Evolution of Integral Consciousness. This paper outlines these 2 different perspectives on education, creates a critical analysis of both and then identifies the beliefs of each of the authors as they compare to existing perspectives on education. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MHAimsEd.wps

A Critique of an On-Line Lesson Plan
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This 2 page paper provides an overview of a lesson plan selected from an on-line database. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MHLessPCr.rtf

A Lesson Plan in Language Arts
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This 4 page paper provides an overview of a lesson plan in language arts, which focuses on the story Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MHLesPLA.rtf

A Model For Inclusion-friendly Schools
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the inclusion paradigm. Ideas on how to train and educate staff is a focus on the paper. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: SA218inc.rtf

A Personal Learning and Teaching Theory Structured Around the Theories of Albert Bandura
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A 7 page guide in the construction of a personal learning/teaching theory. The author contends that much guidance can be found in fields which on first appearance are very different from education. One such field is industry. It is from there that the theories of Bandura originated. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: PPedBand.rtf

A Philosophy of Education
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This 8 page paper discusses several educational philosophies, and suggests that postmodernism, for all its difficulties, might be best in meeting the demands of a rapidly changing world. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: HVPhilEd.rtf

A Preferred Vision For Administering K-12 Schools: Tutorial
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A 16 page research paper that begins with a general introduction to the principal's job and how the role of the principal has changed over the last twenty years. The major tasks of the principal are outlined. The writer then focuses on the characteristics, knowledge, skills and abilities the principal needs to have to be effective. These discussions are drawn from numerous research studies. Finally, the writer presents a summary of the characteristics and skills that determine how effective a principal will be. Throughout the paper, tutorial suggestions are provided for writing your own paper. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
Filename: PGprncef.rtf

A Proposal for Researching the Literacy Needs of the Adult Basic Educational Student
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This 11 page paper does provide a research proposal, but much of the paper relays information about adult learners and their reading abilities, problems and desires. Questions, suitable for use in the form of a questionnaire, are included. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: SA611abe.rtf