This led me to the foundational research of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory as applied to teaching practice and student learning. ... He discusses Howard Gardner's MI theory and how it provided a powerful psychological foundation that supported the pedagogical approach that he had developed. ... She states that in the educational world of authentic assessment, performance-based education, and graduation by exhibition, Gardner's MI theory seems right at home. ...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act required American schools to enforce mandatory expulsions for any student found in the possession of a firearm on school property. This type of regulation, requiring a mandatory consequence for a predetermined act, is known in the educational realm as a zero tolerance policy. Since 1994, schools throughou...

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Furthermore, the metaphor within Iago's soliloquy as he describes Desdemona as 'free elements' whose virtues he will turn into 'pitch' foreshadows how the innocence of the lovers will be undermined by Iago's manipulation whilst aligning with critic Helen Gardner's statement 'to Iago, the world and other people exist for him only to be used' (The Noble Moor, 1955). ...

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The recent rise of new forms of media and the modern changes in the world have driven individuals to invest less time watching TV, listening to the radio and reading magazines and books (Gardner et al. 2009); lately, youthful demographics have progressively moved their hobbies to alternative types of entertainment. ...

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"The differences between the UK and US constitutions are overstated since both constitutions create a similar type of political system". - Discuss. "A constitution can be defined as the system of laws, customs and conventions which defines the composition and powers of organs of the state, and regulates the relations of the various state organs to one another and to the private citizen. In short, it stipulates the structures and powers of government and between government and the citizen" (Jones et al. 1994, 279). Both the United States and the United Kingdom have constitutions but "expr...

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Learning has been defined within physical education not as a passive reception of knowledge, however one in which learners must be active in creating their own understanding (Gardner, 2008) stating the importance of a practical element. ...

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