Chapter 25 – Knowledge Gap -The knowledge gap hypothesis presumes that you will know more about these topics than people whose educational level is lower than yours‚ even if the topics don’t directly concern your everyday life. -Stated by Tichenor‚ Donohue and Olien in their 1970 article they said the population is divided into two distinct segments: a group of better educated people who know more about most things and those with low education who know less. -Low Socio-economic status (SES)
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Knowledge and Wisdom Knowledge - and wisdom. Sometimes we have all we need of one‚ but not enough of the other. And often‚ too often‚ we don’t know the difference. Often‚ too often‚ we mistake knowledge‚ the accumulation of facts‚ for wisdom‚ the ability to make the right choices in life. To succeed as individuals‚ and as a nation‚ we need to know how to put what we know to proper use. Perhaps this is why our system of education so often fails. Children are fed facts‚ lots of facts‚ without
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up the concepts of personal knowledge and shared knowledge. Personal knowledge depends on the experiences of a particular individual because everyone is living life differently. On the other hand‚ shared knowledge is the product of more than one individual as it binds different ideas together. Shared knowledge is pretty much a collection of personal knowledge. For example‚ my personal knowledge is that Taylor Swift is the best singer of all time‚ but a shared knowledge would be Taylor Swift is a singer
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is contained in books." Compare and Contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion‚ which source is more important.? And Why? Explain with some real examples. By Payal Gupta (blog: http://mixwritings.blogspot.in) It is an old cliche that experience is a good teacher as compared to books. I agree with it. It can be a question of dilemma whether to prefer books or experience as a good source of knowledge. No doubt books explain us the concepts about
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learned that Socrates personally does not believe himself to be wise whatsoever. Instead‚ he claims that only truth he is truly certain of in his life is that he knows absolutely nothing. This is disavowal of knowledge is the ultimate provocative statement that drives the debate between knowledge and philosophy. Socrates’ claim can be seen as incredibly ironic in the sense that here we have an intellect that is widely regarded as one
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ABSTRACT The study was designed to explore the comparative effectiveness of transmitter of knowledge model and inductive inquiry model on students’ academic achievement. The main objectives of the study were to expose each of the two experimental groups to the transmitter of knowledge model and inductive inquiry model respectively and to compare the effectiveness of these models in the teaching of Social Studies. The pretest posttest control group experimental design was chosen for the experiment
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Knowledge is More Powerful than Power There are many ways to be a leader‚ someway leads to a good future; someway is a dead ending. "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works in the open‚ and the boss in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives." (Theodore Roosevelt). Like what Roosevelt said‚ leader and boss are different. Leader means use knowledge and skill let people follow and boss means use power let people follow. Creon and Prospero are the leaders in
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PETER OLAFSON BACKGROUND Peter Olafson has just taken a position as the general manager for Cable King Television (CKV) of St. Paul Minnesota. CKV has been in existence for the past four years. The company is by UniComm of Beverly Hills California and a local St. Paul businessman‚ 85%-15% respectively. The first three years of CTV were spent securing state‚ federal‚ and local franchises and permission to operate in the St. Paul area. When Olafson arrived‚ CTV had six employees working on
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have access to any kind of knowledge. Even the most elementary knowledge that is to say their identity was taken away from them. Why was it so important for slave owners that their slaves should remain ignorant and what strategies did they use to achieve this goal? First of all‚ I will focus on the problem of the identity: how and why slaveholders deprived slaves of this self-knowledge that is necessary to man’s balance? Secondly‚ I will turn to the issue of knowledge: Why was it so strictly forbidden
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KNOWLEDGE BY ACQUAINTANCE I53 Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description Bertrand Russell Russell‚ Bertrand (1917). Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society‚ 1910-1911. Reprinted in his his Mysticism and Logic (London: George Allen
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