... assumptions and established meanings and work out alternate solutions. Keywords Twenty- first century education, poststructuralist literary theory, teaching of literature, critical pedagogy, social cognitive learning. Introduction The current study is concerned with evaluating the value of use of literary theory as a pedagogical tool to achieve the aims and objectives of twenty- first century education. ... available which recommends reader response approaches and introduces cognitive teaching strategies, techniques, and activities that promote creative, active, collaborative learning ...

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... that they can afford. This can be interpreted as purchasing the newest IQ and assessment books, educational software, enrichment and private tuition programmes, and numerous copies of school texts, teachers' guides, and examination papers from top notch schools. Such widespread high expectations in schooling standards by parents have made their working relationships with teachers very stressful due to education-driven anxiety ... ...

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... tolerance policies and the use of alternative methods of ensuring school safety "beyond the scope of the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994" (Insley, 2001). A study published by the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing (2011) more specifically examined the unintended negative consequences of zero-tolerance policies in schools and explores an innovative alternative ... number of court referrals from schools. The author argues that this harsh response, to what he asserts to be normative adolescent behavior, is misinformed and counterproductive. This case study evaluates the Clayto...

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... increased students' achievement and offer quality education. In their investigation, Stavroula, Leonidas and Mary (2011) showed that differentiation promotes all students to improve their achievement. The study was concerning the application of differentiated instruction in mixed ability classes, in which Cypriot pupils participated and provides evidence about the effect that differentiated instruction in mixed ability classes ... students' achievement. Differentiation is not the way out of ineffectiveness, but it can contributes to achieving effectiveness for all students. This work i...

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... prefer segregating these students in existing special schools. However, advocates for inclusion endeavor at fighting stigmatization allied to disability, thus endorsing opportunities for all in education. For instance, Idol conducted a study to determine the attitudes of elementary school administrators toward inclusion (80). Findings portrayed that the administrators, being in favor of inclusion, declares that the program works efficiently. Their attitudes toward ... work in collaboration with special education teachers, parents, and support personnel such as instructional and occupati...

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... are distributed. I have a personal example I would like to put forth in support of my argument in favor of a vulgar pragmatic approach. I am a Science student, entering my second year of university study in 2013. During my first year studies in Biology, I was required to produce two scientific essays that presented a biological case by review of scholarly literature. Having quite literally no idea ... ...

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... teaching sex education are teaching with an abstinence only approach. While abstinence is a sure way to forgo sexually transmitted diseases, abstinence is not a realistic method for today's generation. In 2009, a study was done on a group of youth in Texas indicating that 52% of high school students are sexually active and among that same group of teens that are sexually active, 42 ... ...

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