Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Game-Based Learning (GBL) The use of Game-Based Learning (GBL) or Gamification, as a learning tool, has created some debate concerning its value and educational merit. Does GBL belong in schools? Many of us have grown up playing games, and in primary school education games have a high presence in segmenting our learning in informal and non-formal ways. Unfortunately in formal education, games are still often seen as just an unnecessary and counterproductive activity, and the potential of games…

Throughout the Colonial Period of America, limitations surrounded education for women, reducing it to biblical teaching that lasted only through the primary years. As Enlightenment ideas settled in the country, the concepts of freedom, liberty, and equality pervaded revolutionary thought. In addition to shaping many nation-forming documents of the time, it engrained these Enlightenment concepts into the American identity. This identity led many minority groups in the new nation to question their…

new Common Core education standards were introduced in 2009, there has been a massive debate over whether it is really benefiting students or simply resulting in various negative effects on many different aspects of the student. There has been an overwhelming amount of backlash on the new standards from students, parents, and even teachers and authoritative figures in the world of education. Despite the not-so-positive views that exist concerning Common Core, there have been some people that…

behind this motive is that the United States Drugs Enforcement Administration and Food and Drug Administration decides and plans to categorize kratom under “Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)” after careful thought (Henningfield, Fant & Wang, 2018).…

Mey Son Sotheary was eighteen years old when she started writing and most her work focused on the social issues arising from social confusion concerning radical changes of politics and economics. Reading her work on” My Sister” it appears she grew up in a family of three children and her father seems to have a better job in the family. Therefore, after reading this piece of literature and looking back at the motives behind her work it would be reasonable to review this reading with the Marxist…

is highly present in South African society today, whereas the opposite is present in New Zealand. For hundreds of years, New Zealand has based their societal norms around freedom of speech and equality, which Claude said was a refreshing outlook concerning the way different groups of people who reside in one society are…

languages spoken were French and Creole with 54% speaking primarily French and 36% speaking Creole most of the time. Respondents attend colleges such as the St Esprit College, Royal College of Port Louis and Loreto’s of Rose Hill and Quatres Bornes. Concerning the position of the Sino-Mauritian students on the economic ladder, 64% consider that they belong to the middle class while 36% of respondents consider that they belong to the upper class. The sociological study of class dates back to the…

expert focuses on formal and informal research and education required to be able to practice efficiently the field. As an expert, the nurse participates in forwarding the nursing practice and expanding upon evidence-based theories (Zerwekh & Garneau, 2015). In being that nursing is an evidence-based practice, it is the nurse’s responsibility to ensure proper research is being conducted in order to provide essential care for the patient. Furthering education is also a major component of this role…

“The Value of a College Degree”. I’m your host, Donovan Kopetsky. Today, we’re joined by two experts in the higher education field. Please welcome, Freeman Hrabowski, who is the President of the University of Maryland and the chair of President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans, and Mike Rose, Professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. The two of you have somewhat different views on the proper means to obtain…

well as philosophy. A focus on at least four theoretical aspects concerning their different and similar approach to the analysis of class in the modern society is the sole base of this essay. Illustrative examples are used to substantiate our answer. Karl Marx and Max weber both analysed similar ideas or concepts in the 19th century but came to different conclusions. \\ Karl Marx (1818-1883) was born in a period where he witnessed some drastic changes such as the industrial revolution. The…