Introduction Cheating has seemingly become an everyday phenomenon in exam situations at most of Hungarian universities. Almost every student prepares for the examinations making handy little bits of paper, contemplating on where to sit and, during the exam itself, the most sophisticated even use th...

Teaching Thinking Dispositions: From Transmission to Enculturation Shari Tishman, Eileen Jay, and D. N. PerkinsHarvard University August 1, 1992 This paper was written as part of a project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The authors thank the foundation fo...

To meet the needs of an increasing industrialized Canadian society in the late 1930's, the elementary curriculum was revised. This essay will explore the changes BC curriculum endured as a result of the progressive movement within the Greater Victoria area by way of the Greater Victoria Survey of...

Education has always been stressed as an important factor historically; however in recent years, the actual "learning" process has emerged as a significant causal factor. The poor state of the current educational system in the United States has resulted in much criticism and reform. These criticis...

Multicultural Education in America America has long been called "The Melting Pot" due to the fact that it is made up of a varied mix of races, cultures, and ethnicities. As more and more immigrants come to America searching for a better life, the population naturally becomes more diverse....

During my daughter\'s first grade year, several disturbing revelations concerning her early education precipitated what has since developed into an extended personal exploration of American education reform. I came to realize that our neighborhood public schools, whose primary function I believed sh...

When envisioning an educated person, many characteristics come to mind. I think back to my childhood days and think about the different incidents when I encountered an individual doing things that made me feel they were educated. When I was 15 years old, my high school math teacher always seemed to ...

In order to reach any conclusion on whether a teacher is or not effective, one must first proceed to an evaluation of the teacher's role. Is a teacher not required by norm to be effective? Should not the act of teaching in itself imply effectiveness? According to the Oxford Dictionary for Adva...

Education had an emphasis on many different aspects during the time prior to the Civil War. There was a certain irony that set the mode of this time making things that were said irrelevant to the actions that were taken. The paradoxes of education in Pre civil war America, are evidenced in subject m...

Behaviour in Organisations. Assignment 1. Case study on an organisation. Background. S.A. Swim Schools is based at the indoor heated pools at the Minda Centre, Brighton and the Woodville Spastic Centre, Woodville that provide private and exclusive venues for the specialist teaching of swimming. The...