pupils learn best when they are actively constructing their own learning. Dewey John Dewey rejected the notion that schools should focus on repetitive‚ rote memorization & proposed a method of "directed living" – students would engage in real-world‚ practical workshops in which they would demonstrate their knowledge through creativity and collaboration. Students should be provided with opportunities to think from themselves and articulate their thoughts. Dewey called for education to be grounded
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The Millennium Development Goals What is the goal? The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) are eight goals that all 191 members states have agreed to try to achieve by 2015. The United Nation Millennium Declaration‚ signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to achieve universal primary education‚ extreme proverty and hunger‚ universal primary education‚ promote gender equality and to empower women‚ to combat HIV/AIDS
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Report on Primary School Dropouts The Reasons Behind an Anthropological Investigation [part-4] CHAPTER 6: INTER AND INTRA LINKAGES BETWEEN VARIOUS FACTORS Drop-out problem is not caused by any single reason‚ in fact‚ a whole lot of different factors work behind it. These factors are also inter-related to each other and therefore one factor influences many other factors. For example‚ poverty has inter-linkages with many other factors that influences drop-out like quality of education‚ parental
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OLE OF PRIMARY TEACHER The Teacher is like an oil lamp if its flame is steady and bright a hundred lamps can be lit by it‚ without in any way diminishing its brightness. For ensuring the brightness of the lamp‚ it is necessary that the wick be in good order and the oil supply be sufficient." Certainly the role of the teacher cannot be written in mere words. So far from my observation as a learner‚ I have begun to understand that there are many roles and responsibilities that come with
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Cinthya Perez History 102 “Letters to King Jao of Portugal‚” was written by the king of Kongo‚ King Affonso‚ who’s real name was Nzinga Mbemba. King Affonso writes this letter directed to the king of Portugal‚ King Jao‚ to inform him about his concerns of his people. The letter is dated 1526 and takes place in the Kingdom of Kongo‚ which by during this time slave trade is going on (705). Throughout the letter of King Affonso seems to beg King Jao for help rather than being demanding‚ “again we
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“How Should Millennials Pursue their Goals?” Times are changing‚ and the way the world is moving along is too. Many generations have past and every one of them have left their unique mark. The latest generation so called “millennials”‚ are doing their life differently than past generations. In the article‚ “Take the Creative Path to a Career”‚ from author Julia Wolfie‚ points out the different career paths took from past generations to millennials. Young Americans are taking different steps than
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Goals of the Hippies DBQ Essay: Every decade in past American history has had a characteristic that defines what the decade was about and what styles were in and beliefs were heard throughout the decade. One could say that the hippy decade of the late 1960s and early 1970s could be looked at as the decade with the most impacting characteristics in the twentieth century United States of America. Documents that have been presented to this author show that the hippies impacted the United States dramatically
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Does wealth lead to happiness? You can’t buy happiness! Have you heard this before? Do you think that it is true? Surely we have all heard this age old adage‚ and most of us understand that it is indeed true. You cannot buy yourself a happy life. But does that mean that money is bad‚ that we should not strive to build wealth and financial prosperity for ourselves and those that we love? Absolutely not. Just as money does not buy happiness‚ it definitely does not repel it either. In fact‚ there
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and I started to cry because my parents were not there with me. I ventured myself and try to make friends. Lucky me‚ I got many friends and we were so happy enjoying our school life. Graduated from kindergarten as a bright student‚ I move on to my primary school‚ first day a bit nervous but I managed to control myself from crying. I started to make new friends at new school. I didn’t really concentrate on my studies because of influenced from my friends. My exam grade slowly began to fall down and
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1. Do you think the primary cause of the failure of the two companies that led to the bailout was a management failure‚ a worker failure‚ a shareholder or customer failure‚ some other reason‚ or a combination of the above? Why is that the case? General Motors was founded by William “Billy” Durant on September 16‚ 1908 and has several brands under names such as Chevrolet‚ Cadillac‚ and Buick. Chrysler was founded by Walter Chrysler in 1925 and it also has many brands such as Jeep‚ Dodge‚ Ram‚ and
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