FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCTION Discuss how each of the foundation areas provide needed insights for librarians in their efforts to create and sustain a learning community in schools. According to Speck (1999) in Schools as Professional Learning Communities (2008) “a school learning community is one that promotes and values learning as an ongoing‚ active collaboration process with dynamic dialogue by teachers‚ students‚ staff‚ principal‚ parents and the school community to improve the quality of learning
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Zeno of Elea‚ perhaps the biggest supporter of Parmenides‚ stayed loyal to his teacher. He wrote a book in which to further support Parmenides and his values that both him and Zeno‚ as well as the other members of the Eleatic metaphysics had all shared. Parmenides believed that “reality is single‚ changeless and homogeneous‚” (Makin) and to back up what Parmenides’s beliefs‚ Zeno wrote up what is now known as his paradoxes. His most famous being‚ the paradox of plurality and within that‚ his argument
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Foundation of Mythology Hum/105 World Mythology Kelly Phillips Joan Canby February 03‚ 2014 How is the word myth used popularly? For example‚ what does the statement‚ “it’s a myth” mean? In contrast‚ how is the word myth used in the academic context? After considering the definition in your textbooks and course materials‚ write a definition in your own words. Myths are stories told from generation to generation that come from the distant past that are true or not true. Myths could be a belief
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Immanuel Kant on Law and Justice To be moral living human beings there must be a guiding action. This action varies depending on the degree of obligation: law‚ rule or maxim. A law should promote and protect the common good. Above all‚ a law must be just and reasonable to follow. A rule is a prescribed guide for conduct or action that indicates how we ought to act to behave in certain situations. Rules are not strictly legislated but are nevertheless obligatory guidelines for actions. A maxim
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT The identification and organization of a set of activities scheduled to ensure the achievement of the goals and aspiration of a system of education based on an existing design or model. It is defined as the process of selecting‚ organizing‚ executing‚ and evaluating learning experiences on the basis of the needs‚ abilities and interests of the learners and the nature of the society or community. It describes all the ways in which training or teaching organization plans
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My first introduction here will be about the teaching process of education. Why do we teach? By definition Teachers are leaders‚ and simply put: leaders lead. Teachers lead their students through and to the path of knowledge. According to the Foundation Of Education text "Teachers also demonstrate leadership by working with others and modeling desirable behaviors." Teachers are paid to teach and that is a fact‚ but in most instances‚ teachers goal is to educate students for better‚ highly recognized
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Solutions Regarding “Foundations” Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot was a perfect example of the “enlightened Administrator” who wished to reform the government‚ not overthrow it‚ and was even employed by King Louis XIV as “Controller General”. His ideas in the article‚ On Foundations‚ while radical‚ and critical of the Old Regime‚ mainly focus on the ideas of local government‚ taxation‚ humanism‚ and citizenship. In the article‚ Turgot criticizes the Old Regime practice of employing “foundations” or corporate
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Foundation Course Economics OUfc008 2 Open University of Mauritius - Foundation Course in Economics - Module 1 FOUNDATION COURSE IN ECONOMICS Module 1 OUfc 008 April 2013 3 Open University of Mauritius - Foundation Course in Economics - Module 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Course Author : Vinod Seegoolam Course Reviewer : Dr Chong Wang Cheong Ah Tow OPEN UNIVERSITY STAFF Course Supervisor : Perienen Appavoo (Open School Division) Project Coordinator : Premanand Koonjal (Open School
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A deep foundation is a type of foundation distinguished from shallow foundations by the depth they are embedded into the ground. There are many reasons a geotechnical engineer would recommend a deep foundation over a shallow foundation‚ but some of the common reasons are very large design loads‚ a poor soil at shallow depth‚ or site constraints (like property lines). There are different terms used to describe different types of deep foundations including the pile (which is analogous to a pole)‚
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Franklin‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ Horace Mann‚ John Dewy‚ and Johann Pestolazzi. Each altered the course of American education to a degree that the developments made during and after the lifetimes of each of these figures are practically manifested in today ’s educational environment. In some cases‚ as with Franklin‚ much of his contribution was practical‚ with the establishment of public libraries and emphasis on self-education. Others‚ such as Dewy‚ were ideological pioneers that changed the methods of
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