Social Networking: Learning Theory in Action * By Ruth Reynard * 05/21/08 ##AUTHORSPLIT##<---> There has been a lot of recent debate on the benefits of social networking tools and software in education. While there are good points on either side of the debate‚ there remains the essential difference in theoretical positioning. Most conventional educational environments are "Objectivist" in nature and highly structured in terms of students progress and choice. Social networking essentially
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A. The Ecological Systems Theory developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner‚ has helped people today understand why certain behaviors happen in the presence of different environments throughout our lifespan. The theory is broken down into five layers‚ the microsystem‚ the mesosystem‚ the exosystem‚ the macrosystem‚ and the chronosystem. The first innermost layer is the microsystem. This layer is the immediate environment children live in. It’s the child’s family‚ friends‚ teachers‚ neighbors
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Motivational theories have been studied by many scientists for many years. Motivation is “the processes that account for an individual’s intensity‚ direction‚ and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.” In laymen terms motivation has been said to be a reasoning of why people do the things that they do or say some of the things they say and want some of the things they want. Many scientists put a lot of time and effort into the study of human beings and this intriguing topic testing hypotheses
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Social Capital in the Educational Context The term social capital was initially originated in early 1920’s and later the concept was developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and American sociologist James Coleman (Dika & Singh‚ 2002‚ p. 2). The meaning of social capital according to Coleman is resources that exist within relationships between actors and that facilitate a variety of social outcomes (Durfer‚ Parcel‚ & Troutman‚ 2013‚ p. 3). Furthermore‚ these relationships between actors are
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Positive Accounting Positive economic theory and accounting practices are objective and based on fact. Positive accounting focuses on analyzing the economic statistics and data at hand‚ and deriving conclusions based on those figures. For example‚ if corporate growth allows a company to increase shareholder dividends over previous dividend payments‚ positive accounting theory would conclude that corporate growth causes a rise in stockholder dividends. Most bookkeeping and data collection involved
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controversial subject of animal rights relates to the family systems theory. Murray Bowen generalized that the family needed to be looked at as whole‚ not as an individualistic approach (Anderson and Sabetelli‚ 1999). He also created a visual terminology for learners to understand that when something affects one person within the family‚ the entire family is affected. It is almost how a car functions. There are many parts that work together
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people to change themselves and social conditions What Does AOP Look Like? Counteracting the damaging effects of oppression Building individual and community strengths to counteract oppression Building strengths of individuals/ groups to analyze oppressive conditions‚ reclaim identities‚ change social and psychological patterns associated with oppression How Does AOP Differ From Mainstream Social Work? social‚ cultural economic & political systems reproduce injustice Interventions
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Running head: SOCIAL STRUCTURE THEORY PAPER 1 Social Structure Theory Paper Laquita Taylor Criminology 314 Instructor JP January 18‚ 2015 Running head: SOCIAL STRUCTURE THEORY PAPER 2 Introduction In this paper‚ I am going to discuss about the video of social structure theory‚ with covering the following topics. I will discuss how the video supports a social structure theory‚ the primary subject and the content‚ social issues discussed. Social structure is created by the
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Albert Bandura & Social Cognitive Theory Denise A. Vega Liberty University PSYC 341 July 1‚ 2012 Professor Timothy Bouman Abstract The contributions Albert Bandura made to the understanding of social learning have led to further investigation and new findings. Social Cognitive Theory is Bandura’s greatest contribution to social‚ cognitive‚ and abnormal psychology. It has led to a greater understanding of human behavior and how humans learn behavior in a social context. Ultimately‚
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Marxist theory This theory was basically ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Both of them were born from Germany. Marx was a student of the most prominent German Idealist Philosopher. Engels was editing a radical journal that written by Karl Marx at the year 1844. Due to this both of them meet and become close friends. Engels start to share his opinion toward capitalism to Marx. After that‚ they decided to work together and become partnership because Marx was good in dealing with difficult
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