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    Effective Adult Learning

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    to learn effectively‚ and these ways change as a person grows. One goes from being a child‚ to being an adult‚ and while growing‚ the most effective forms of learning change. Some of the best learning styles for adults would have very little effect on children‚ and vice versa. “Journal of Workplace Learning” and “Simulation and Adult Learning” show some of the most effective ways to help adults to learn quickly and easily. “Journal of Workplace Learning” covers one of the easiest methods for learning

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    A Critique of Plato ’s Ideal Regime in the Context of Ancient Athens Thesis Statement: Plato ’s classification of citizens within a given society is detrimental to the progress and‚ possibly‚ the survival of a city-state structure like that of ancient Athens. Introduction: This paper attempts to critique Plato ’s structure of the social classes. The researcher would hope to dismantle Plato ’s social structure in his Republic and the presuppose good of such a system to a city-state setting like

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    Life Without Adults

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    kids think that life without adults would mean a lot of freedom and fun‚ but the truth is that it would lead to a lot of bad outcomes and consequences. Young children don’t have enough wisdom or knowledge as an older adult with maturity would. Adults are more organized and responsible than most average‚ ordinary kids these days. Small children would need a lot more supervision to help them stay safe and sound. The world would become a huge disaster without any adults to care and protect for the little

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    Adult Domestic Violence

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    WITNESSING OF ADULT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Jeffrey L. Edleson University of Minnesota The author wishes to thank Susan Schechter and Andrea Bible for their helpful feedback provided on earlier versions of this manuscript. Running head: Children’s Experience of Domestic Violence Abstract Social service professionals are more frequently identifying children who witness adult domestic violence as victims of that abuse. This article expands common definitions of how children witness violence‚ and adult domestic

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    Future of Adult Education

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    & Future of Adult Learning Learning for adults is a field of study in and of itself. The study of adult learning‚ or andragogy‚ has come a long way and it is a relatively new idea. Society has tended to be so focused on teaching children‚ that only in the last century or so have educators come to realize that different methods should be used to more successfully educate adult learners. One of the main ideas that must be realized when looking at learning as an adult‚ is that adults tend to learn

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    ‘Discuss Ana María Matute’s use of childrens’ perspective to comment on the adult world’ Ana María Matute is one of the greatest contemporary Spanish novelist and short story writers that survived and experienced the Spanish civil war living through the horrors and the repression of Franco’s dictatorship. Known for her critical approach against Franco regime she used many of her writings to protest against oppression‚ prejudice and hypocrisy-a reaction to her own experience of the civil war

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    1.2. Characteristics of adult learning Education of children is compulsory‚ formal and standardized. Adult learning is voluntary and intentional. The aim of adult education is the independent self-directed learner. Adults tend to resist a learning process which is incongruent with their self-concept as autonomous individuals and does not correspond to their needs and interests. Adult learning is learner-centered What children learn in school should be useful to them — but later in life. Child

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    Adult Education Essay

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    For many years there has been much debate about what‚ if anything‚ sets adult education apart from other fields of study or disciplines. According to Davenport and Davenport (1985)‚ the identification of what is unique about adult learning (in contrast to child or youth learning) has been a long-standing effort in adult education. They reasoned that if this difference could be identified‚ then the research territory of adult education could be based on these theoretical distinctions. Knowles (1980)

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    adolescents in adult prisons might teach them a lesson‚ and scare them into correcting the way they behave‚ it’s not the right decision. Putting children in with violent adults puts them in great danger‚ it has no effect on crime‚ and the kids aren’t mature enough to understand what they are doing; therefore children who commit certain crimes should not be tried as adults. Narration- Over 2200 juveniles nationwide have been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Children as young

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    Wearing the "Adult"hood

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    Wearing the “Adult” Hood Being a young person I’ve heard many a great debate over the word “Adult”. Most specifically between the kids and parents of my family‚ and these arguments are always the same. “You’re not an adult I still pay your bills”‚ and the most common “you’re not an adult you still live with mom and dad”. But those arguments don’t really give us a clear description of what makes someone an adult. There all good points on what an adult does but are they requirements? I don’t believe

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