EDCX230 Educational Thought and Practice: Past and Present Assignment Two 1 178 Words Compare and contrast Dewey’s and Makarenko’s views on how social control is best achieved in education. Whose views do you prefer and why? Different educational theories comprised by educational philosophers contain many significant elements in order to facilitate their implementation. One important quality within the foundations of an educational theory would be that of social control. Social control is
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Educational Theories As with all theories‚ educational theories have developed and changed over time. Many of these theories built on each other as researchers learned more about behavior and learning. Additionally‚ despite the fact most of these theories were developed several decades ago‚ they are still relevant and applicable to current learning situations‚ which is why they are still studied. One of the early educational theories was the theory of classical conditioning‚ which was made popular
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debate on what is the best way to educate the children of our nation. With many theories and perspectives‚ how do we say which one is better than the other? The variety of theories of how education is influenced‚ and how we view the learning and teaching process is what gives us the purpose and expectation of how schooling and education should be. While we compare and contrast the functionalist perspective‚ conflict theory perspective‚ and the interactionist perspectives on the desires and potential
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mind‚ teacher’s can utilize the theories of social constructivism‚ individual constructivism‚ and behaviorism to enhance learning in the classroom. Upon observing the different methods of constructivism and behaviorism‚ notable differences are revealed. For example‚ one theory holds cognitive structures in high esteem‚ while the other disregards their importance completely. It appears that there are more differences than similarities between the three theories‚ and it bodes well for teachers to
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an insight into the educational theories of Socrates. It is rather difficult to gain any information from first hand written accounts of Socrates work as he hardly ever took down notes and the only accounts that have stood the test of time are those that were documented by Plato‚ a student of Socrates. In actual fact most of what we know is from later people such as Aristophanes‚ Xenophen‚ Plato and Aristotle. These accounts are what have been formulated into Socrates theories. This poses some questions
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Application of Educational Development Theories: A Case Study October 26‚ 2010 Understanding human development is considered the key towards maximizing the potentials of every student in the classroom. Developments in various fields‚ such anthropology‚ psychology‚ and biology have contributed largely to reinventing education in the last century. Research is given a central role in shaping “children’s education and experiences in schools” (McDevitt & Ormrod‚ 2010‚ p. 4). The advances in related
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The common beliefs between Froebel’s and Montessori’s education philosophies are that both philosophers believe in the child’s right to be active‚ explore and develop their own knowledge through investigation seeing activity as a guide to education and do not believe in repressing it. Both philosophers believe that the environment cannot create a human being‚ but it does give them scope‚ material‚ direction‚ and purpose. Both philosophers believe that it is the teacher’s task to nurture‚ assist‚
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The four Gospels are historical narrative‚ describes the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. The kingdom of God is the gospel theme‚ the four Gospels connected the events of the life of Jesus together. For readers of the Gospel and the Greek - Roman Biography are different. The Gospels was written for the early Christian church‚ it was to use for the church’s beliefs. Biography stressed that Greece - Roman hero personal qualities‚ encouraging others to follow the example of their lives and bear
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The Four Theories of Emotion The four main theories of emotion are interesting views of four scholarly psychologists. The theories are the James-Lange theory‚ the Cannon-Bard theory‚ the Schacter-Singer theory‚ and the Lazarus theory. Each of these four theories explains the order of events that occur when an emotion is present. Each theory is a hypothesis waiting to be tested out. Each of these theories is held by a psychologist(s). The psychologists no matter how far past our time they
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Research Paper Four-Drive Theory in the Workplace Organizational Behavior- MT3250 Dr. Carl W. Proehl‚ Jr. November 5‚ 2013 ABSTRACT One of the hardest jobs as a manager is getting people to do their best work‚ even in trying circumstances and deciphering what motivates us as human beings. A study in neuroscience‚ biology and psychology has led more researchers to learn about the human brain and what emotional needs people are driven by. In this paper we will look at the four-basic emotional
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