As with other areas of the curriculum home economics
tends to respond to the objectives of powerful interest
groups rather than to the work of recognized scholars and
the ideals of democracy.
The philosophical orientation of this study is derived
from the work of Jurgen Habermas, a dominant figure in...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of theological
education on philosophy of human nature among Sunday school teachers in
the Church of the Nazarene. Research materials consisted of Wrightsman's
Philosophy of Human Nature scale and a demographic questionnaire
constructed by the researcher. These materials were mailed...
Although public sector unionism dates back at least
to 1916, collective bargaining emerged mid-century when
President John Kennedy signed into law Executive Order
10988 which established federal policy recognizing unions
for federal employees. Today all levels of public education
have unions. In today's community college, the curriculum,
the professional background...
This study had two purposes. The first purpose was to
determine whether certain aspects of the Japanese language
were reflected in examples of the Japanese cultural
construct of contemporary essays. The second purpose was
to show how these aspects of the Japanese language reflect
the intuitive, non-logical nature of Japanese...
The problems facing our nation's public schools today cannot
be divorced from our enthusiasm for technology and the positive
relationship we believe it shares with our perception of progress.
Based on the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy,
author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the development of increasingly
"efficient"...
The purpose of this study was to provide exploratory understanding of the nature of academic prestige in the field of sociology, and to provide insights into the history of the discipline. The primary research question was: does academic prestige act as a factor in controlling academic knowledge production in the...
Purpose of the Study:
The purpose of this study was to analyze, in the mathematics
classrooms, career-oriented verbal mathematics problems on the
achievement and attitude of the vocational mathematics student.
These career-oriented mathematics problems, used as advanced
organizers, were contrasted with mathematics word problems of a
more abstract and generalized...
With over 800 languages spoken on the continent of
Africa, inter-cultural communication has always been difficult.
In addition, many of the peoples of Africa have
experienced colonial oppression. Various powers have
sought to interfere with intra-cultural dialogues and the
free flow of information. Their effectiveness, however,
was limited because of...