Place of Buddhist education in present day Vietnam
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
In the beginning the Christi?n Er?, the people in v?rious p?rts of Southe?st ?si? found out of Buddhism ?s ? result of increased contact with the Indian merchants who had come to the region to trade. These merchants not only set up trading places in Southe?st ?si? including Vietnam, but also...
Adjectives in Cognitive Linguistic
Essay - 14 pages - Educational studies
During the seminar, we have buckled down to the arduous task of understanding and using a brand new theoretical field of study as far as the great family of linguistics is concerned. This paper and the database we have come to build out are the concrete results of a work which turned out to be...
Compare and contrast the working conditions, aspirations and prospects of French students entering higher education in the 1960s and those entering higher education since the 1990s
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Students entering the French higher education system in 1960 and since the 1990s will have undergone quite different experiences. However, so will the students entering higher education in France at the beginning of the 1960s compared to those entering towards the end of that very same decade....
Entry level nursing preparation and its impact on health care delivery
Essay - 13 pages - Educational studies
Few professions have changed to the degree that nursing has in the past one hundred years. Despite the obvious challenges, most notably the ongoing nursing shortage, it is crucial to update the requirements of being certified as a registered nurse. The only logical approach to this, taking into...
Boot Camps - Not the best alternative
Essay - 5 pages - Educational studies
Boot camps, also known as shock incarceration treatments, became increasingly popular in the United States as a reaction to the rising juvenile crime rates in the past two decades. The general public made the juvenile justice system its scapegoat and critiqued it for being too lenient on the...
Religious disaffiliation and the transformation of bodily practices
Essay - 15 pages - Educational studies
Students of religion, from a variety of disciplines, have recognized the numerous ways religion is inscribed on the body. Most religious rituals are embodied and they, in turn, embody the sacred. These bodily practices including dress, diet, hairstyle, facial hair, and body modification are...
The effectiveness of e-learning programs
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
The aim of this section is to establish from various literature, the main points of best practice in implementing e-learning into a large organisation, in particular recent research on the attitudes of the implementation of effective e-learning. It will look at the advantages and disadvantages...
A second chance:A report on the effects of after-school programs and the prevention of delinquent behaviors
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Educational studies
Research shows that delinquency among children and adolescents is an extremely prevalent social problem, especially among adolescents in poverty stricken neighborhoods. Studies have shown that these kids are twice as likely to use and abuse drugs, participate in gang related activities and have...
Affects Of teaching techniques & styles on student learning
Tutorials/exercises - 16 pages - Educational studies
This project endeavors to reveal, present and discuss the idea that a wide and various array of teaching techniques proves effective in improving the functionality of instructors as tertiary educators. It emphasizes the central role of varied communication in the teaching process and covers the...
Southern Methodist University
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private university founded in 1911 at the heart of Dallas Texas offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in its seven schools: humanities and sciences; business; the performing, visual, and communication arts; engineering; education and...
Pros and cons of different schools
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
Today there are many different types of schools for children of all ages. They can be categorized into four broad categories: intrasectional schools or public schools like magnet schools, intra- and inter-district controlled-choice plans, charter schools, and contracted schools; intersectional...
Divorce and its effect on educational development
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Divorce is something that we see more often in society today. From starting as an unheard of phenomenon within families, divorce has increased, and is encompassing more and more children each and every year. Is divorce something that we as educators can expect to affect our students? Yes, but...
Arts in the schools: A look at the benefit of art programs for students
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Problem: All children are not receiving equal opportunities and exposure to the arts as a part of their formal education. Hypothesis: The unequal distribution of art education for students is detrimental to their personal and academic development. The lack of exposure to the arts results in...
A researched investigation on best practices for English Language Learners (ELL)
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
ELL students represent a large percentage of the population within schools in the United States. This group of students is actually increasing more than that of English speaking students. (Shore, 2001). This group also has a very high drop out rate, coupled with low ranking grades, academic...
Evaluating distance education
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
Online Distance Learning (ODL), also called distributed education (DE) has yet to revolutionize education. While the potential of the Internet — a multi-media medium of information that can combine synchronous and asynchronous communications, video, audio, text, and graphics — for...
Educational collaboration
Essay - 5 pages - Educational studies
Collaboration and consultation are idea with significant positives, but which has shown to be difficult to hold to in practice. Collaboration between teachers, first suggested as a way of helping students with special needs, is now believed to be beneficial for learners of average and above...
The prevalence of eating disorders among Asian American women
Essay - 9 pages - Educational studies
The prevalence of eating disorders among ethnically diverse populations has become increasingly evident over recent years. The existence of eating disorders across the socio-economic and global sphere has raised interest in the socio-cultural factors which influence diverse groups. However, there...
Multicultural early childhood literature in picture books: Reflections and explorations from the color-blind generation
Essay - 10 pages - Educational studies
Utilizing methods of research, social and historical inquiry, as well as interviews and examination of texts both primary and secondary, the purpose of my senior work project is to interrogate the dominant view(s) of multi-cultural early childhood literature through the lens of contemporary...
Learning theories for students with learning disabilities
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Learning is the process of acquiring, gaining, and retaining knowledge which may be applied to situations in real life. Learning is not a passive process wherein students can take in information and then remember this information throughout the student's life rather learning involves a complex...
How to conduct a security survey
Essay - 5 pages - Educational studies
Due to the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers of New York, America has heightened its security measures. Different measures of security have been improved. The development of Homeland Security was established to strengthen the security at public institutions and places in order to prevent another...
Goliath bird-eating spider
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
The Goliath Bird-Eating Spider, which is scientifically known as Theraposa blondi, is indeed a spider that can actually eat a bird. This spider that belongs to the Tarantula family is hairy and is coffee-colored. The Goliath Bird-Eating Spider is a large spider with four pairs of thick legs, a...
The miseducation of Mexican Americans: The crossroads of affirmative action and bilingual education
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
From its inception, the US has been a nation of foreign cultures and languages, a nation with a strong ideology committed to ideals of harmony and justice. Since its inception too, the nation has time and time again fallen far short of these ideals. While waves of immigrant ethnic groups have...
Existentialism in today's classroom
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
This paper looks at Dr. Van Cleve Morris's ideas on existentialism in order to see whether existentialism can be used effectively in today's classroom. Dr. Morris's idea of existentialism is one of responsible individualism. One is responsible for their choices and therefore, makes responsible...
Staying afloat: Income and poverty determinants for Southern Maine
Tutorials/exercises - 22 pages - Educational studies
In this study I will be looking at data from the Southern Maine subset within the 2000 United States Census. This sample includes a 5% random sampling of the residents of Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennedy, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and York counties. The data that I will use comes from Integrated...
Graduation and Race : Asian, African-American, Hispanic and Caucasian
Essay - 5 pages - Educational studies
Differing racial cultural attitudes towards education affect college graduation rates. In this paper we will be discussing the racial attitudes of four distinct racial groups: Asian, African-American, Hispanic and Caucasian. At the very outset of the paper I want to begin with my personal...
Comparing and differentiating the quantitative methods of investigation.
Essay - 9 pages - Educational studies
If information is to be labeled credible then it has to be acquired in nothing less than a scientific way. By saying this, it means that there should be a systematically planned method of obtaining data that begins with finding reliable sources in significant quantity and ends in formulating...
The relationship between drop-out rates and high-stake exams
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Educational studies
Issues on education took up a complicated level wherein the micro aspects of this pervasive social institution are given much scholarly attention. Recently, a concern about the effect of increased use of high-stake testing on students' academic performance has baffled the intellectual circle....
Getting the necessary nutrition on a vegetarian diet ( Different nutrients and its sources included )
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Regardless of one's reason for choosing to become a vegetarian, there is more to this choice than simply eliminating meat from one's diet. Meat contains nutrients vital to the human body, so when meat is removed from a person's diet, extra measures must be taken in order to ensure that that...
Salvaguardar a los niños o abandonar a las escuelas?: La política educativa del "NCLB" y su impacto en dos comunidades de Atlanta
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Jurando que la reforma educativa bipartidista sería la piedra angular de su administración, George W. Bush fomentó una serie de propuestas a cerca del tema durante su campaña presidencial de 2000. Con la intención principal de mejorar el sistema de escuela pública a través de los Estados Unidos,...
Pornography is not your friend: Pornography and the First Amendment
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Under the First Amendment, pornography is sometimes protected as freedom of speech in our country today. However, pornography harms our society in several ways. Pornography is detrimental to attitudes and views about healthy sexuality, particularly the views held by men. Pornography promotes...
