in an apartment that offered me neither memories nor roots‚ I began to find old and distant memories of my own‚ long buried by pain and time and slowly brought to the surface now…. Now I would have to paint the street that could not be seen‚” Asher Lev. So far away from his comforting world‚ Asher is forced to think beyond what his mind is upholding him to. Now that his childhood is only serving him as a memory‚ reality is kicking in and tearing his conscious apart. Dealing with the stress from his
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students at this international school come from all over the world they all grew up very differently. This different way of evolving from such a young age can affect the daily lives of each individual especially in school. The education theories of Vygotsky‚ Bandura‚ and the pygmalion effect can be directly related to the variety of different cultures and surroundings of the students and their learning processes. Vygotsky’s ideas of social learning
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things that influence them. Two works of literature that relate to this quote are To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the environment of racial discrimination makes a difference in a courtroom‚ where the suspect is an African American and the accuser is a white man. Also‚ In My Name is Asher Lev‚ symbolism takes a major role in following conformity.
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Theories of Cognitive Development: An insight to the theories of Piaget‚ Information-processing and Vygotsky How do we learn? How do we grow? Over the years‚ psychologists have studied to great lengths the processes that humans go through as they progress from infancy to adulthood. Several theories have emerged over time with three prominent ones. Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky produced two important and distinct theories. Another important theory‚ the information-processing theory‚ presents
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While both Piaget and Vygotsky were similar in their views in certain ways. Most commonly shared were their views as constructivists (the idea of learning by doing) and believed that social forces set the limits of development. The most obvious difference is their view of cognitive development. Where Piaget felt that cognition develops in four discreet stages that are limited‚ Vygotsky believed the opposite‚ that there are no stages and development is continuous. Where there are a few areas that
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Vygotsky’s notion in his social interactionist theory is that children are born with the predisposition to communicate and that language is acquired through a social context and that there are critical times when adult intervention can assist higher levels of learning‚ also known as the zone of proximal development (ZPD) (Swinburne learning material‚ week 3) a child who is born should have basic physical of five senses abilities(Andrew James‚ MBChB‚ MBI‚ FRACP‚ FRCPC‚ 2009) and continue to develop
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Extremes Collide In My Name is Asher Lev‚ Chaim Potok writes about a young boy in a Landover Hasidic community in Brooklyn who is an excellent artist. Asher travels through childhood hanging onto his art‚ but when his art interferes with his religious studies‚ Asher’s two worlds of art and Torah collide. Potok deliberately chooses the extreme icons and symbols of secular life‚ such as the world of art‚ on the one hand‚ and of Judaism‚ Hasidim‚ and the Rebbe‚ on the other hand‚ to intensify
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SHC 31 Promote communication in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings Title Level Credit value SHC 31 Promote communication in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings 3 3 Assessment criteria The learner can: 1.1 Identify the different reasons people communicate People communicate for different reasons‚ to portray their feelings‚ emotions‚ pain‚ opinions‚ etc. The communication could be
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Chaim Potok’s Asher Lev is a dual being trapped inside a little boy. On one side there is the family’s beliefs‚ the religious traditions and his great ancestor role-model‚ who Asher is expected to take after‚ if not surpass. On the other‚ there is art encompassing the artist’s emotions and portraying them in form more beautiful than anything else Asher has access to. These sides clash almost throughout "My Name is Asher Lev"‚ but even though those close to him teach‚ reinforce and often force religion
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within their personal lives as well as in their surrounding community‚ leads them to a fatal state of regret‚ remorse and actuality‚ all of which were consequences caused by their very own actions and decisions. Chaim Potok‚ author of My Name is Asher Lev‚ creates a similar theme of his characters’ ways of contributing to society. Although with a different community and individuality of the characters‚ both works establish a set of contributions and unexpected reactions of the two communities for each
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