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The purpose of a philosophy is from the moment you enter my classroom it’s apparent how the environment is centered on the students. From the furniture to the interactive bulletin boards, it’s evident that the room is geared towards preschoolers. Working with young children, I find the educational philosophies that best fit my own philosophy are progressivism, constructivism, and humanism; all student- based theories. The philosophers or educational influences I model my philosophy from are:…

Identify your selected problem in the first line of your posting and post your research question. “Relationship between effective Discharge Planning and Psychiatric Hospital Readmission Rate” Does effective discharge planning reduce the rate of readmission to a psychiatric hospital? According to Burns and Grove (2005), a correlational study examines the relationship between two research variables within a known situation. A correlational study determines if two variables are correlated. It also…

For practicing Muslims, a pilgrimage to Mecca is meant to cleanse a person. The rebirthing erases all negative aspects, in hope for a positive path. Ta-Nehisi Coates made his own pilgrimage away from a white dominated society and found his Mecca at Howard University. The foundation of his Mecca was black history. At a young age, it became clear to Coates that traditional education failed him. He found his Mecca, in part, through self directed independent study and discovering himself as he…

I cannot tell you how many times I have been in a conversation, telling someone about my home education, and the person I was talking to used the phrase “regular school” in reference to public school. Most American’s are unaware of the fact that public schools have only been the common means of education in the U.S. for a short time, less than 200 years. In that time the school system has gone through many changes and reformations; one of the results being compulsory education laws that required…

towards the public school system (qtd. in Lebeda 99). However, there have been controversial debates over the legality of homeschooling. Some parents believe that homeschooling is more effective way of education which should continue to exist as an alternative to public education while others view homeschooling pessimistically and they have argued against the legality…

ability to change one’s mood to either positive or negative based on the genre and the lyrics a song. To determine if there is a correlation between music genres and deviant behavior, researchers Jeffery Lozon and Moshe Bensimon examines genres as alternative rock, hard rock, heavy metal, hip-hop/rap, punk rock, rock and electronic/techno to see if it influences an individual’s behavior negatively. Researchers Lozon and Bensimon expect to find that music as those listed above will have a…

The null hypothesis of this test is that the past p values of X are not helpful to predict Y (X does not Granger cause Y). The alternative hypothesis is that the past p values of X are useful to predict Y (X Granger causes Y). p is the lag length of the Granger causality test and the results of the test depend on the chosen lag lengths (p). Therefore, different lag lengths (6, 12,…

outside conventional Western health care are known as alternative medicine. Acupuncture, Yoga, Homeopathy, and Herbalism are just a few of the practices that fall under the category of alternative medicine. Although complementary and alternative medicines are frequently rendered as the same thing, complementary methods are used coupled with conventional methods while alternative methods are used in place of conventional practices. Alternative types of medicines are used across the globe in many…

“Home-school or public school?”, “Are public schools safe for our children nowadays?”, “Home-school will curb socialization?”, these are the most questioned by the parents towards themselves for their children education. A lot of issues arise in their mind regarding this and they need to sort out the differences between those two and their final choice. There are three differences which are public school gives proper socialization, diversity of curriculum activities in public school and public…

There are so many ways in which to be educated these days. You could go to the general public school, a private school, a Christian school, or you could get an online education. Having so many choices could cause some confusion when parents are trying to decide what would be best for their child. Many parents don’t take classical education into consideration. It is argued that classical education is out-of-date and no longer relevant, but classical education is still very adequate. So, what is…