Parents are primary educators of their children. Parents serve as teachers primarily through their day-to-day actions, their reactions, and their interaction within the family context. Children absorb, internalize, and personalize experiences with parents. Perhaps the most critical area in which parents serve as teachers is in the development of the child’s self-concept, which begins forming.. read more →

Inherent in all individual is an impulse to grow. Human growth has additional dimensions, that is, to develop a more adequate structure and the ability to function better. Piaget (1973) argued that children do not receive knowledge passively, but rather, discover and construct knowledge through activities. Malcom Knowles suggested that the educators as a result.. read more →

Abstract Phenomenological primitives play a vital role in learning science.  Phenomenological primitives are primitive notions which stand without significant explanatory substructure or justification.  Phenomenology makes a distinction between appearance and essence.  Phenomenology is the study of essence.  Phenomenology deals with question of what is the nature or meaning of something.  This is different from naïve.. read more →

This paper presents results of an experimental study to compare the effects of three modes of analogy presentation—verbal, pictorial and computer simulation. Two hundred and sixty-six ninth-standard students were randomly assigned to the three treatment conditions. Five pre-test and two post-test measure were obtained. The five pre-test measures were—prior achievement in language, prior achievement in.. read more →

Decisions about formal education are always a matter of dispute, since it is a matter of making choices (Kliebard, 1977) about: what should be taught? How it should be taught? Why it should be taught? To whom? Should knowledge be distributed differentially based on capacities and or destinations? Answers to these questions emerge from complex.. read more →