Essays on Experiential

Reflection Paper

Reflection Paper

Article Summary

In this article, Maura Sellars examines the role of the teacher as a change agent through reflective practice. The author argues that it is the teachers and not education authorities, curriculum developers, or policy makers who are the most effective, durable, and powerful agents of educational change. She also contends that the reliability and proficiency of change in education practice depend largely on the capacity of teachers to develop self-knowledge and reflective practice. According to the Sellars (2012), historically, these aspects of teacher development have not been emphasized in the process of preparing and promoting effective teachers. ...

Women in the law enforcement and military have some shared experiences that civilian women do not usually have. The police and military work gives these women more experience in term of skills and expertise or knowledge than their civilian counterparts in important ways. Experiential learning by David Kolb may be important in understanding the differences in the experiences of army or law enforcement and civilian women. This type of learning facilitates education involving direct participation in real life events and settings. It also involves the formation of abstract concepts, reflection and observation, and concrete experience besides concrete experience, reflection ...

This paper focuses on the practicum exercises that the writer experienced while taking a course in Nursing at the [---------------name of your school-------------]. It centers on AACN Essentials 1 and 2 that particularly highlights communication and leadership skills and concepts, as applied in the everyday setting inside a hospital within the State of [your State]. During the practicum, we observed the manner of communicating, specifically the clinical mentor or the nursing manager. It was obvious she preferred using verbal and nonverbal in communicating with the nurses. She also used technology, as I saw her sending email messages to the ...

Management

MANAGEMENT Executive Summary NIVEA is the initial label and most significant line of Beiersdorf, a derma care organization that was started in Germany. Beiersdorf’s common aim is to become the leading care label in the product categories and market. The agency plans to attain such goals by utilizing NIVEA as a star line strategically. NIVEA's communication purpose is to reinforce its brand as the leading derma care line and to update its brand image (Keller, 2008, p. 6). Lately, the organization has declared Blue agenda the label compass, which concentrates on reinforcing the NIVEA line. Nevertheless, the firm ...

Where is the boundary between actual declarative knowledge (factual content) and educative experiential learning (reflection and critical thinking skills)? How do you fit those two together in one teaching/learning experience? The boundary between factual content and educative experiential learning is at the point where the instructor creates questions to the students, rather than dictate answers. While factual content informs learners to pick the lesson in its absolute form, an experiential teaching method elicits the need for more research and a thirst for removing the layers that raise more information about the subject. PowerPoint presentations and notes from the ...

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Introduction 4 Theoretical Background 4 Brand Love Scales 4 Definition of Love 5 Personality of Brand 5 Image of the Brand 5 Brand Love’s Elements 6 Brand Romance 7 Brand Attitude 7 Brand Loyalty 7 Fashion Brands Love 8 Brand Love in Cell Phone Industry 8 Brand Love Creation by the Companies 8 Apple/Samsung/Huawei 8 PepsiCo 9 Benetton 9 Conclusion 9

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Executive Summary Brand love is a relatively new phenomenon actively discussed by the scholars and marketing professionals. Brand love is necessary for the modern companies to successfully attract and retain their customers. Moreover, it helps to convince ...

Abstract

The growing demand for the competitive specialists justifies the particular attention and concern to the Malaysian students’ reading comprehension skills from the Malaysian authorities. The introduction of teaching the Malaysian core school subjects in the English language (Yassin et al., 2009) provided the continual attempts and experiments to define the most efficient way to decrease achievement gaps in the reading of Malaysian pupils. Starting from the 5th grade, students extend their vocabulary through reading (Zubairi & Sarudin, 2009). The following research proposes the method of using “Reading Cues’ as scaffolding answering the closed or WH-questions to improve the performance of ...

Factors that Influence Purchasing Relationship in Automobile Industry of China

Introduction The USA, Western Europe, and Japan markets for the automobiles are almost stagnating causing an increased attention and concern to the world automotive industry. They have turned their interest in China market for cars. This is associated with the fast growing economy in China unlike that of European nations and the USA. The Chinese market for cars is indeed the turning point for all auto companies. The environment is conducive to start production in China to supply the potential markets and then export from there to other world markets. This literature will focus on the purchasing relationship in ...

Positive Intelligence and Productivity

The article published by Achor Shawn in the Harvard Business Review asserts that positive intelligence or positive mindset is optimistically correlated with performance, productivity, creativity, and engagement at the workplace. "Happiness advantage," as the author has termed it, is the factor that helps in clarifying the relationship between positive intelligence and workplace effectiveness/productivity. Happy workers are likely to perform better than their unhappy counterparts, confirms meta-analysis of 225 studies. On an average, happy employees are 31 percent more efficient. Positive intelligence, which is the science of mastering own mind, assist a person in optimizing the level of happiness. Simply ...

Abstract

Nurses have been responsible for providing primary health care in the modern health care system as well as all through history. Advance practice registered nurses can be certified in different roles. One of the important roles is that of a Geronotological Nursing Practitioner (GNP). Geriatric nurses have become a significant part of modern medicine as they are the primary care givers to elderly patients and it is recognized as a very critical advance practice nursing specialty. GNP’s are entrusted to manage a very critical part of patient care, and they have to be vigilant at all times to ...

The theories of adult learning provide educators a clear insight into how an adult learns, thus helping trainers to be more effective in training adults through being more responsive to their learning needs. The theory of self-directed learning states that majority of adult learners take the decision to learn without the intervention of others. They also plan, execute and evaluate their learning experience and align their new knowledge with the job roles. The main advantage of self-directed learning is that the learner can readily incorporate what he learns through the training program into everyday workplace requirement. The limitation of ...

Overview

Successful development of products is an important cornerstone for the success of any firm. Thus, there exist significant incentives for the firms to introduce new and viable products to markets. Also, the payoff regarding financial success can help enhance a firm’s profitability and growth that is not achievable with existing services and products that could be nearing the maturity stage in their cycle. Finally, development of new products can be a source of important economies of scale for a firm (Rajiv and Naresh, 2008). In that view, Apple considers extending its product line and seeks to conduct a ...

Introduction

The manual is meant to help trainees become competent facilitators of distance learning. It takes into account that none of the facilitators have experience in distance learning and therefore, will focus on all the aspects of distance learning.

Part 1: Vital Information in the Facilitator Training

Audience The program targets individuals already serving in the mentioned capacity of learning instructors. The instructors must also be successful traditional classroom instruction methods. Therefore, the trainees are expected to be knowledgeable in instruction methods, student assessment, course and curriculum design, adult learning among other learning and teaching aspects. Moreover, the trainees must have taught at a diploma or higher level. ...

PSYCHOLOGY

An individual’s behavior can be attributed to nature, nurture or a combination of both of these factors(Deckers 53). Nature predisposes individuals to act in specific ways. It programs the human biological clock to bring out intuitive mannerisms linked to the human genes. Examples of behavior that can be attributed to nature are in form of relaxes both at birth and during mature stages of life. At birth suckling is a reflex that isn’t learnt but is innate. During more mature stages the fight or flight response, where one instinctively makes a choice to flee or face ...

Abstract

Pretend play is one of the avenues through which children get to experience the world at an experiential level . It is through this form of play that the children get to develop key cognitive skills necessary for fully functional adults. Pretend play can take different forms, but the games have common features such as allowing room for children to vent their feelings and emotions while giving their description of actual and fictional objects. Various theories explain the importance of pretend play, with the Lev Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development, offering essential insights on the importance of pretend play . ...

Introduction

Value refers to the utility, the worth or the desirability of a good or service. For a business, value refers to the primary sources of revenue. Value is located in the object (inherent value), in the experience (value in use), and in perception (value as a social construct). Inherent value resides in an object. This value can be observed from the market price of the object. The forces of demand and supply determine the market price of an object. Values in use arise when a customer enjoys an intangible service such as a hotel room and they are prepared ...

Introduction

Experiential learning is one of the most important methods that people from the academe, most especially educators apply to help students develop his/her emotional, cognitive, and social values. Experiential learning is basically learning through first-hand experience, action, discovery, and exploration. It is important for observational learners which needs actual application of concepts to understand it (Brock et al., 2012). Immersing oneself in an unfamiliar territory is an important way to teach people, especially students, on what it is really like to be part of a certain community, and it is also one way for them to understand why people ...

The idea that humanity can be sure of the knowledge that it has is generally taken for granted. Skeptics have pointed out that it is, in fact, impossible to know reality in any significant way and be relatively sure that this knowledge is legitimate. Since this argument was made, philosophers have attempted to overcome the need to establish some basis for knowledge that they could be sure of. While those such as Descartes used pure reason in order to come to some basic conception of reality, thinkers such as Locke and Kant focused primarily on empirical knowledge in order ...

Analysis of Waldorf

Waldorf Education is a private, developmental curriculum focused on teaching to the holistic needs of children.  Rudolf Steiner developed Waldorf education in the early 20th Century to create a learning environment focused on artistic learning and creative thinking.  Waldorf schools, also referred to as Steiner schools, exist in 91 countries and there are about 1,000 schools in total (Costello-Dougherty, 2009).  Waldorf schools vary in sizes but some have programs from preschool through high school (DeLuca & Hughes, 2014).  As children pass through a series of stages of development, Waldorf curriculum focuses on teaching the right thing at the right ...

Introduction

Learning is perhaps the most important goal for every student. However, few students can be termed as strategic learners. Most of us do not know how to maximise what we learn so that in the end we find ourselves wallowing in shallowness, never actually learning what we purport to have learned. There is need, therefore to understand what constitutes strategic learning, the kind of learning that is not easily forgotten and the role of reflective practice in strategic learning. This paper, therefore, seeks to explain how a learner can employ reflective practice as an aspect to strategic learning. In ...

Reflective Essay Assignment Recruitment and Selection with Observed Skills

We understand that the role of human resource department is very critical in ensuring that the right candidates are chosen for the right position and that the skills and knowledge of employees are up graded as per the market changes and current market needs. The role of recruitment and selection is very important in this regard. Recruitment and selection are the basic functions of human resource department along with other functions such as setting up compensation and benefits packaging and developing career management and career development paths for all employees (Lievens, Filip, and Chapman, 145). The role of recruitment ...

The purpose of this assignment is to understand the different religions that have been studied throughout Unit 3. Vedic, Spirit Possession, Hindusim as well as Islam and Judaism will be evaluated. Lessons that have surrounded each of these paradigms suggest that there are considerable core concepts that can be defined throughout religion universally. Lesson 10 on Christian Hymnody in Uganda explains an important issue relating to song contests. The way that Catholic Identity and African methods of expression have contributed towards observable comparisons in multiple ways. India is the motherland of not only particular religions, but a unique spirit ...

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Defining intelligence has been a complex area of study. In the era of psychometrics and behaviorism intelligence was considered to be a single trait which individuals inherited. It was believed that the human mind was like a blank slate and whatever taught to them would be learnt by them would be learnt. Under this assumption every human mind was treated as having the same capabilities and individual differences were ignored. On the other hand, a large number of researchers are of the belief that individuals hold some sort of capabilities which allow them to learn and adapt at varying rates. In a report published ...

It seems that almost each horror or science fiction film is being interpreted as an allegory of some particular realities; in addition, the supernatural characteristics described in such films are sometimes seen and described as symptoms of political and/or social diseases. For example, “zombie” horror movies tend to describe how paranoia and panic even among the beloved ones take over the common sense and traditional social norms. Current example of such movie is “28 Days Later” by Danny Boyle, in which he depicted post-apocalyptic world abandoned and destroyed by an epidemic that transforms ...

Capstone Project: Healthcare Administration

Introduction

Capstone project also called culminating project, the capstone experience, senior exhibition, and the likes. It refers to a multifaceted assignment serving as the culminating intellectual and academic experience for students during the final year of the academic course being pursued. It resembles a very great extent a college thesis, but capstone project has a wide variety of forms. The most common feature is the handling of long-term investigative projects culminating in a final presentation, product, or performance. Usually, students are to choose a topic, a social problem or profession of their interests. They conduct researches on subjects selected, maintain a portfolio of the results or ...

Experiential Interview

In the capacity of a victim service organization, the organization aims at transforming the lives of individuals affected by the crime of sexual assault. Sexual assault is one of the most prevalent crimes in law as it encompasses the violation of the civil rights belonging to individuals.

Information about the Agency

The name of the agency is Amnesty International. Following the interview of several employees at the foundation, most of their work is primarily voluntary. The organization does not put any condition in place that requires them to reach out to the victims of crime and help them resolve their problems. ...

An emotion regulation refers to the ability of a person to manage constructively and cope with his or her feelings. It can also be defined as means the process by which a person influence the emotions to have, when and how to experience the emotions. Individuals respond or express emotions in three ways. These ways are behavioural, experiential or physiological. Behavioural response means outward manifestation of emotions while experiential response implies internal reaction to an emotion. On the other hand, physiological response is body reaction to an emotion. Emotion regulation can occur prior to emotional response, antecedent focussed, or after emotional ...

Introduction

The seven Ninian Smart’s dimensions of religion include practical and ritual, for example baptism, prayer and worship; narrative or mythical, for instance historical stories of Moses and Jesus in the bible; ethical and legal, as evidenced by the ten commandments and beatitudes in Christianity; doctrinal and philosophical, which entails justification of the faith through scriptures; experiential and emotional, expressed through deep emotions when something believed to be supreme or profound is experienced; institutional and social as evidenced by existence of churches, mosques and temples; and material aspects such as architectural structures, music and religious symbols. This paper analyses ...

Introduction

People have different perceptions and understandings on the concept of consumption, but it take a lot of considerations and concern for one to get the ideal meaning of the term consumptions and how it needs to be applied in daily activities and practices. As argued by some scholars and writers, consumption is not necessarily about transaction but it is fundamentally subjective state of consciousness with different meanings and hedonic responses (Kreitner, 2000). This paper targets at investigating the inner meaning of consumption and drawing meaningful understanding to people on the application of consumption and how it relates to people, their ...

Question 1: What do you think your a) strengths and b) weaknesses are? And why?

Part of my strengths is my strong self concept. I know myself, my own sets of skills, abilities, and interests. I can understand how I feel and I have a strong sense of empathy. Hence, I am also people oriented. It is easy for me to have other people open up. I really do not know why but even when I just meet a stranger, sometimes, it will just take several minutes, then, he/she will warm up and tell me interesting tales. This is where I learn a lot about others and about the world. I think being insightful and reflective is also part ...

Study Program

Review of Keenan, J. & Evans, A. 2014. ‘‘I am a starbucks worker my life no longer belongs to me’: the performance of enstrangement as a learning tool,’ Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 101-112. This paper examines the use of autoethnography as a means of approaching the experience of estrangement, thereby making the researcher’s personal experience a topic of investigation. Autoethnographic practices that emphasize the location of the researcher as an important response to post-structuralist epistemologies in which older forms of certainty in the validity traditional scientific inquiry have been edged out by greater knowledge that experience ...

As early as Biblical times, dreams have been given a special place; in ancient Egypt, Joseph’s interpretation of pharaoh’s dreams had awarded him an honorary place among his advisors, and was said to have saved Egypt from starvation. Working with dreams in therapy implies a belief that that dreams are meaningful and provide added value to the therapeutic process. Studies have shown that dreams can be influenced by a certain psychopathology, and that their content and patterns (e.g. recurring dreams, nightmares) reflect a person’s wellbeing (Pesant & Zadra, 2004).

The Nature of Dreams

Dreams can be defined as “hallucinatory subjective experiences” generated by one’ ...

Introduction for CMU Competencies Model

The crux of this report is to highlight my leadership competencies through the exploration of theories and models. Also, with the aids of the leadership development plan, I will be better off on preparing myself; a young undergraduate who is entering the workforce in the near future and have an aim to take up leadership role as an event manager in a major company. The Central Michigan University (CMU) had developed a Leadership Competency Model which made up of five aspects, namely the social responsibility, innovation, task management, leading others and self-management. According to the model, leaders may not master all ...

Segmenting in Gladstone Hotel

Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Canada, is a heritage hotel having Victorian style built up with contemporary luxury interiors. Gladstone is unique in many ways, first of all, it patronizes local artists from Toronto and nearby places to present and exhibit their works / talents to the guests. It has 37 rooms, all designed by the local artists, each one with unique interiors having distinct names such as Sky Gazer room, Teen Queen, Sugarbush etc. It also has four venues for varied events and two restaurants. The event spaces are suited for art exhibitions, live performances, meetings, private events, weddings and ...

Introduction3

1.1 Purpose of Report..3 1.2 Outline Structure3 2.1 A structured reflection based on Kolb’s Learning Cycle..4 2.2 Peer Review6 3.1 Discussion of the significance of Organizational culture upon the employees with reference to organizational structure.7 3.2 Peer Review.10 4.1 Workforce Planning Presentation..10 4.2 Peer Review.12 5.1 Conclusion13 5.2 Future Plans.13

References .14

Managing People and Organizations Introduction Throughout this course, the class has presented with several vital information that will help to progress in the workplace and beyond. The information that has sustained in the following development of my ...

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In the recent years, coaching and mentoring techniques have become integral elements of the modern social reality. These activities are considered to be effective tools of professional as well as personal development, so highly valued by the today’s workforce. High-quality coaching and mentoring serve to enhance motivation, productivity, morale, and provide strong emotional support for the needs of individuals, especially in case organisational change initiatives are being pursued. Through the implementation of such practices, both the organisation and the employee tend to benefit tremendously. Coaching and mentoring are both closely connected with the concept of reflective learning, which ...

Executive Summary

Green Mountain is one of the leading coffee brands in the highly competitive American coffee market. The brand was established in the year 19981 and quickly grew to be most popular coffee brand in USA by overtaking market leaders like Starbucks. Apart from offering world class coffee to its customers, Green Mountain also commits itself to the sustainable business practices. It procures a substantial part of its coffee seeds through the Fair Trade Coffee route. Fair Trade Coffee involves procuring coffee directly from the coffee producers and ensuring a good standard of living for coffee producers and coffee workers. America is ...

Kolb’s model of experiential learning constitutes a number of elements. They include; taking part in concrete experiences, reflecting other experiences, observing those experiences and applying the acquired knowledge in different situations (Manning 13). David Kolb came up with four unique types of skills that were vital for experiential learning. They are; openness and eagerness to participate in new experiences, observational and reflective skills to provide different dimensions of the views on the new experience, analytical skills for integration of new concepts and decision making skills are integrated into actual practice (14). When creating a training intervention program for employees ...

Summary of article

This name of this chapter is Philosophical Issues: Phenomenology. Evan Thompson and Dan Zahavi explored consciousness and its relation to body and the processes of the brain. There are relations between “conscious experience and cognitive processes” (Thompson, and Zahavi 67). This article deals with the concepts of method of phenomenology, the understanding of intentionality and phenomenal consciousness and self-awareness. There is a difference between imagination and visualization and perception. Bodily experience and self-consciousness are related. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) researched phenomenology in detail.

Husserl introduced phenomenology which has the best methods for studying and explaining consciousness. Other philosophers who addressed ...

The perspective of college Students & Faculty members in department of art education Regarding the Usage of Technology in Constructivist Learning Environment

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Literature Review

Constructivism is a teaching and learning philosophy which states that humans acquire knowledge from their experiences. Using constructivism as a tool in education helps the students to develop and explore their views and ideas (Juniu, 2006). Understanding the way constructivism works, and the benefits it offers to the classroom can help teachers implement the theories into their teaching styles. Incorporating technology with constructivism advances the application of knowledge and the involvement of students, and offers them larger potential for ...

The journal discusses how the practices of cultural production have a great effect on practices associated with marketing aesthetic symbolisms. Cultural production is defined as a process wherein manufacturers, suppliers, and consumers play a role on creation and use of a certain product. In this case, cultural productions will focus on art consumption. The authors classify the marketing literature of arts and aesthetics’ relation to cultural production into four different perspectives. The first is managerial orientation, which focuses on the operational side of arts marketing. Second is consumption orientation, which analyzes art consumption from different human aspects of perception. Third is everyday-life orientation, ...

Evidence-based Practice

Evidence-Based practice (EBP) is a problem solving approach to the provision of healthcare to patients and families (Bennett, 2009). The history of EBP as a concept can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s to the works of epidemiologists at McMaster University, Canada. EBP developed partially as a response to the scathing critic of the practice of medicine by Archibald Cochrane (Cohen, Stavri, and Hersch, 2003). Cochrane accused medical practice at the time of not being evidence-based. He argued that the treatments, tests, procedures, and interventions used at the time had no evidence on their effectiveness (Cohen, Stavri, and Hersch, 2003). ...

Business Communications

Business Communications

I am lucky to get a job in a big organization like the McDonalds as an Assistant Manager. All my work experience in McDonalds was wonderful and marvelous, and I enjoyed working there. Considering work experiences in McDonalds, my task here is to assemble a report on utilizing the techniques of Management Information System (MIS) for making business decisions. One of the major aspects on which special emphasize has been initiated in recent years was the application and implementation of effective and worthwhile systems for the decision making process. According to research studies, every single technologically oriented and efficient ...

References:

Brighouse, Harry. (2006). On Education. .Abington. Routledge. Print. Dewey, John. (1997). Experience & Education. New York. Touchstone. Print. Thomas, Gary. (2013). Education: A Very Short Introduction. Hampshire. Oxford University Press. Print. Education is a term that refers to the institutional educational course that primary, secondary and tertiary level institutions offer as the standard curriculum. But in fact, Education is an umbrella term that encompasses personal, family and institutional level courses of learning that last the whole life. Family guideline, institutional teachings received, experiential realization, gathering of knowledge through personal and traditional study all are referred to by this ...

SUSTAINABILITY OF SINGAPORE’S S.E.A. AQUARIUM

PART I

Introduction There is a growing awareness about the pace of global warming as well as the socio-political, economic, political and other effects it has had, and is likely to have on the human population and the natural environment. The planet’s temperatures have risen by 1.4°F over the last century, and are expected to rise by a further 2 to 11.5°F the course of this century. With the increases in the plant’s surface temperatures have resulted in increases in the energy stored in the climate system, and with it, there is ...

Strengths

Experiential Family Therapy is a therapy that encourages patients to address subconscious issues through actions, and role playing. Experiential Family Therapy has its strengths and weaknesses. One of the strengths of this therapy is that, it focuses on the present and patients are able to express their emotions on what is happening to them presently. The client will have time to share everything about his/her life experiences one on one without any fears. As a result, it helps the client in the healing process because, he/she is able to express their feelings freely and come out of the problem. Therefore, in ...

Introduction

In an organization’ operations, remunerations remains a critical part of the budget. However, the speedy update of the modern world, the traditional remuneration and its management is increasingly facing challenges in both public and private sectors owing to the business and economic circumstances. In that respect, there are many challenges that could affect an organization’s performance and even possible result to existential threats. Thus, the cash reward that had been the focus of the reward system is losing its importance. In addition, the modern reward management breaks from money and substance as an indication that some nonmonetary compensation and ...

David Kolb developed the Experiential Learning Cycle theory in 1984. In his theory, Kolb explained that learning happens in four stage cycles and four separate learning styles where the recipient learns by undergoing the different knowledge phases from experience to reflection, followed by conceptualizing and ends with Action. The Experiential learning theory according to Kolb outlines learning as the process of gaining, assimilating, transforming and owning knowledge by interacting with the environment (Kolb, 1984, p. 41). These interactions include abstract, concrete, reflective and active participation forms of learning.

The learning process follows this basic model (Saul McLeod, 2013)

As indicated in the model. Kolb’s learning model follows a ...

The article, “Adult School Phobias” edited by Miller and King informs on experiences of women empowerment through literacy. The article reiterates on women stories of anxiety and the adult education practice to assist them. According to Miller and King most, women experience pain, debilitating emotion, isolation, and pain in their school life. Fear and anxiety is inherent in the course of learning to hinder a person’s thoughts to lead to phobias. Some of the phobias associated with school and learning include fear of ridicule, fear of incompetence, fear of the unknown, and fear of the school environment. Women try ...

Introduction

Bell Hooks is a pseudonym used by Gloria Jean Watkins - born in 1952 in Kentucky, USA. Hooks is an English Professor at City College New York. Aside from teaching, Hooks has engaged herself in feminist courses and in the fight for social rights. Although her writings spun a plethora of topics, her most notable are teaching, race, gender and capitalism wherein she seeks to relate these topics and never treating any as stand-alone one. “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black” is a collection of essays by Hooks that address the issue of being a black feminist in America. Hooks starts from ...

[Institution’s Name] The principle behind the volunteer experience was to establish a sense of progress and self-fulfillment. I was fortunate to participate in a medical mission project of the Red Cross where I was able to apply the theoretical learning I have learned from the classroom discussions that we had prior to the experience. It was a good way of ensuring that we can apply what we have learned inside the classroom. Prior to the experience, I was having doubts that I could be an effective social worker. In another discussion made by the person behind the theory of ...

If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy, Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right

In keeping with the research by Dunn et al., happiness increases with an increase in income. The reason behind this is that, as income increases one can achieve improved standards of living and access to social amenities. However, Dunn et al. also postulate that happiness is directly proportional to the income of up to $75,000 since where other factors determine happiness. Accordingly, the statements have been approved by scientific studied which have shown that money buys happiness but insist that the relationship between money and happiness is positive but diffident. At first blush, one would think that ...

[Title of Institution] The operant term in the principle all children can learn is “can.” This means that learning is not a possibility or potential but an absolute capacity. If all children are given equal opportunity for education, learning is achievable. However, due to limited resources and other constraints this capacity is not fully achieved and enjoyed by children of different nations. Several scholars ventured into different researches and studies that would explain how learning is achieved. This paved the way for learning theories to see the light of day. To summarize the learning theories, it only asserts ...

According to chapter six of “Adult learning: Linking theory and practice” by Merriam & Bierema (2013), learning is defined as the ongoing refinement of practice and the emerging knowledge that is gained in the practice of a particular action. Learning and experience are interlinked in that one’s experience is a learning process and, on the other hand, learning creates experience. The more a person is learned, the more he or she is experienced and vice versa. Learning takes place in either formal or informal sectors of life. It is more pronounced in the adults because of the continued engagement in activities; whether ...

Related Learning Experience

Although it may not seem likely, I have been able learn a great deal about important microeconomic concepts and topic throughout my professional career. Importantly, this was not always the cause as it was not until I entered the field of finance and consumer credit that I began to learn about, and understand important elements of macroeconomics, as well as the role and influence they had with the national and global economy. Perhaps the most profound professional experiential education came during the recent global financial crisis and economic downturn that began in late 2007 and lasted until nearly 2011. Following ...

The capacity for evidence-based project implementation, evaluation, and dissemination as well as for research and nurse leadership improves with continued practice. Learning from practice is espoused by Kolb’s theory of experiential learning summed up as “constructing knowledge and meaning from real-life experience” (Yardley, Teunissen & Dorman, 2012, p. 161). Such learning is possible by engaging in reflection with the purpose of drawing insights that will enhance future practice. Without reflection, there is very little chance of rectifying prior mistakes or addressing weaknesses. Thus, self-reflection is one strategy that I will use to further my professional development goals. Based ...

Someone must turn the hourglass over!

For somehow the grains of sand gently slide through the tiny space.

Someone must watch the grains of sand.

And someone must see the gap that remains As the young sand drops and nothingness remains Until the glass is turned over once more; Till life and love begin once more. The old grains of sand, now newly replaced, Can rest in peace, dream and hope That someone is still turning the hourglass. -- Roberta Israeloff. Having walked the earth for roughly seventeen years, I have been able to create a rich palimpsest of experiences. Some recent, and conspicuous ...

Individual vs. Society: Tracing Huck’s Educational Trajectory in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I Mark Twain described Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as “a book of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers a defeat." The book enacts a struggle betwixt Huck’s conscience, a receptacle of societal ideology, norms, custom and law and his ‘innate goodness of nature,’ wherein the contending factions are equally strong and metamorphose Huck’s experiences from simply being ‘playful adventures,’ akin to that of his comrade Tom, into an understanding of ‘nature’s goodness.’ In delineating this transfiguration, Twain sets about the painstaking task of foregrounding the qualities of Huck, that undergo a refinement/education and mark ...

The last few years have witnessed tremendous growth in simulation-based medical education (Issenberg 203) possibly due to availability of computerized whole-body mannequins which are moderately priced and heightened patient safety awareness. Simulation is argued to be the most important innovation to have happened in medical education (Passiment, Heather and Grace 1). It connotes a teaching technique which not only endeavors to provide as realistic environment as possible but also an opportunity for directed feedback. This technique has found unprecedented popularity especially in medical and engineering fields. In medical environment, the clinical situations are virtually simulated for learning purposes thereby providing ...

Stigma can reduce the addicted person to a tainted, discounted, and attributed to deeply discrediting stereotypes in society. This is so because the addicted person is seen as disqualified from full social acceptance. Therefore, Stigma is a central obstacle to recovery for persons with addictions. This so because individuals suffering from addictions may experience rejections, emotional imbalances after disclosing their addictions at work. However, the self-disclosure is the main step toward successfully addressing the stigma associated with addictions such as alcohol. Therefore, the paper will evaluate the benefits and harmful impact of disclosing an addiction at work. There are several ...