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16-year old Malala Yousafzai gave the speech given at the United Nations regarding education for girls in Pakistan. Yousafzai is an activist who promotes education for girls in Pakistan. Malala plays an essential role in the insurrection against the Taliban regime in multiple Middle-East countries, but primarily Pakistan, when it comes to educational rights for children. Her actions became internationally known after the Taliban shot her in the head. Malala Yousafzai is not just an average…

The article “Literature in the ESL Classroom” by Sandra McKay emphasizes the importance of using literature to teach ESL students, the idea which has long been neglected by many. In the article the author argues against the belief that literature plays little role in the ESL context. The author, in her effort to support her argument, also proposes how literature should be approached in a way that it can be successful for classroom use. This article critique will examine the author’s argument for…

Similarly, teachers can place a child in a state of disequilibrium by providing them with a new task, similar to one previously accomplished, dealing with the issue of ‘generalizing’ when the solution to a previous experience is applied and adapted, if necessary, to this new experience. The final of Piaget’s four stages of development is known as the ‘Formal Operational’ stage regarding adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19. The interviews that Piaget conducted with young adults within this…

Rationale Art is an expression that has been a popular medium from generation to generation, inspiring youth to study the form of the art and take it to next level. Our basic needs, food, clothes and shelter is the foremost example where art can be exposed . Cooking is an art, clothing and textiles is an art and houses and buildings also is an ultimate result of art. After exploring various fields in art and design from several years, I realized I am keenly interested in textiles and fashion…

According to neuroscience, people learn more through social interaction. Team learning is very important in schools as a learning organization and to the academic development of teachers and other employees. Team learning allows members of a team thinking and acting together. In schools colleagues learn more by working and learning with other colleagues. They take time to consider what each person understand about the learning and knowledge they have created collectively during the discussions…

CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 INTRODUCTION There exists many definitions for what distance learning or distance education Teaster and Blieszner (1999) say “the term distance learning has been applied to many instructional methods: however, its primary distinction is that the teacher and the learner are separate in space and possibly time”. The most thorough definition was proposed by Desmond Keegan (1995) a leading expert in distance education. Keegan espouses that “Distance education and…

Education today focuses on individualized education and learner autonomy. Students are supposed to be responsible for their own learning and should be made aware of their strengths and weaknesses. Intelligence has traditionally been measured by using I.Q. tests but those testsare only measure one type of intelligence. I.Q. tests are not an entirely accurate way to determine who are intelligent and who are not. Therefore the multiple intelligence theory is very important to modern education…

12-13), such as between parents and the school, there is also room for improvement. It might be beneficial for the learner if the school included the parents more in the student’s struggles, both academic, emotionally and socially. The parents could then cater for these problems at home as well so that the student would receive support on…

Career counselling is one of the application and practice of vocational psychology founded by Frank Parsons (1854-1908). There was no official theory by Parsons on his work and methods like the assessments he utilized. Nevertheless, many career theorists who came up with career development theories and framework credited Parsons for his work as a guiding framework (Baltreniene, 2004) and would consider Parsons’s greatest contribution to career counseling was his advocacy on one’s understanding…

classroom; and expanding profession horizons (Agor cited in Katz &Snow, 2009). In Egypt, four sets of educational standards are developed for teachers, teacher trainers, educational leaders, and in-service training courses within the Egyptian public school EFL context around seven domains of vision and advocacy, language proficiency, professional knowledge base, planning and management of learning, assessment and evaluation, learning community and evaluation and professionalism( Katz & Snow,…