Essays on Learning Strategies

In the modern world, there has been a trend to redefine the terms and acceptability associated with sexuality. This is perhaps best explicated by the presence of modern-day laws that advertently protect sexuality that is known from the basic laws of nature to be ‘unnatural’. Humanity in the contemporary world has seemingly yet very certainly so, changed the whole concept of sexuality to suit the status quo of modern-day sexuality. Additionally, there is quite a lengthy array of sexual misconduct accorded to humankind by God through the Bible, and that has apparently become a mere ‘conjecture’ to the present ...

Abstract

The period of economic recession impacts significantly on the nature of the organizational learning strategy. According to a survey conducted by Personnel Today, in 2009, economic recession affected the learning and development strategy by 59% globally (Personnel Today, 2009). Economic recession is usually a long duration of economic decline characterized by low output, unemployment, a decline in the availability of credit, reduction in the level of trade, and fluctuations in currency value. These challenges affect the ability of industries to manage their human resources (HR) effectively. In particular, the period of recession affects the ability of the management to ...

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 ...

Introduction

Metacognition can simply be phrased as “cognition of cognition”. It is the “knowing of one’s knowing” or the process one uses to assess their learning process. The idea of metacognition was first developed by an American psychologist John H. Flavell in 1979. Flavell assessed the human’s ability to manage, store, retrieve and search information within their memory. He concluded that humans are able to use metacognition mode to acquire knowledge on oral skill, reading, mastery, writing, attention, social interaction and education. It can therefore be said that metacognition involves the process of self-awareness and the ability by ...