Elliot Aronson

Critique of Dante’s Hell Why do people do the things they do? Is it because they simply love to do it? Is it to make money? Is it to make another person happy? Ultimately, people do things because they want to get something out of it, or benefit from in it some form or another. For example, a teenager probably doesn’t just feel a burning desire to wash the dishes for their mom because they love her and want to serve her in any way imaginable. They most likely want their parents to let them go…

teaching technique assures that students do just that by creating an environment that is fun and engaging, and also in a way that is intellectually and, in some cases, physically. The jigsaw teaching technique has been used since the early 1970s by Elliot Aronson (Jigsaw), and is a form of teaching a class where the students are broken into groups in order to solve only a piece of the overall problem (Wikipedia). This complex technique is actually not as easy as it may seem, as it takes a lot…

Urban school districts have been making the switch to school uniforms at an ever increasing rate. Meanwhile, suburban school districts have been slower to make the move to uniforms, often citing that the benefits achieved from uniforms are restricted to high poverty urban areas. According to The National Center for Education Statistics website (https://nces.ed.gov), “Between the 2003–04 and 2011–12 school years, the percentage of public schools reporting that they required that students wear…

Cooperative Learning In The Classroom Introduction: Many in the educational sphere portray Cooperative Learning as being the newest craze in the educational sphere but in reality, it’s key principles have been around for many decades under various monikers. Although it has been tweaked and realigned to fit within the current sphere of the educational systems that we know and love, the benefits remain. Children of differing abilities and backgrounds can benefit both academically and socially…

To begin with, representation is all about understanding the choices that are made when it comes to portraying something or someone in media. The representation of media to an extent shapes one’s perspective of views. Representation is often explained as (or theorised as) a performance of resemblance (as an act of image-making) or even imitation. (Summers, 1996:3). The same representation could mean different things to different people based on how it is decoded by their own life experiences,…

(Aronson, Elliot . 2011). I remember growing up and watching Saturday morning cartoons and the commercials for tv show, toys, cereals, movies and all the other products aimed for children that aired. I would usually see toys that I wanted and would go a beg my…