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Youth Leadership and Entrepreneurship Development Mentorship – The Perspective
[ad_1] The youth are leaders of the future. They deserve to be treated like we would treat any candidate of a succession planning in any society, organization, institution, and company. Such candidates are often enrolled in some sort of development programme in preparing them for the future challenges they would face. They could and should include mentorship development programme. Mentorship Development Programme could include projects that expose the youth to the opportunity to practice leadership as early as possible in their lives. The most effective programmes are those that are designed by the youth, for the youth, under the mentorship of the elderly and/or experienced members of the society, the…
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History of Educational Technology
[ad_1] There is no written evidence which can tell us exactly who has coined the phrase educational technology. Different educationists, scientists and philosophers at different time intervals have put forwarded different definitions of Educational Technology. Educational technology is a multifaceted and integrated process involving people, procedure, ideas, devices, and organization, where technology from different fields of science is borrowed as per the need and requirement of education for implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems involved in all aspects of human learning. Educational technology, broadly speaking, has passed through five stages. The first stage of educational technology is coupled with the use of aids like charts, maps, symbols, models,…
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Overview of Hot Big Bang Cosmology – Theory of Early Development of Universe
[ad_1] Prevailing cosmological theory relating to the initial development of the universe, Hot Big Bang explains how the planet evolved through stages. Very hot at the beginning, the earth became cooler by expansion to a diluted state. In the hotter state it was dense and in cooler state due to expansion hydrosphere was created that covers 70% of the earth mass. One of the unique features of such evolution pointed out by the cosmological theory is that earth still continues to expand as it gets cooler. At the same time the theory is supported through comprehensive as well as accurate explanations of scientific evidences and observations. Most recent measurements made…
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Education For Enterprise Development and Revolution
[ad_1] This admission by a captain of Nigerian industry confirms the essential suspicion about the quality of education in Africa’s second largest economy. Tangentially, it gestures towards the problems of massive unemployment, brain-drain and manpower shortages that continue to cripple domestic efforts to achieve rapidly sustainable growth. For qualified youths looking for a job, it also explains the prolonged and intensive pre-recruitment tests that Nigerian corporate houses insist on before hiring local talent. Western education first came to Nigeria with missionaries in the middle of the 19th Century, who set up the country’s first schools. By the time Nigerians declared independence from colonial rule in 1960, there were three distinct…
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What Kindergarten Is Right For Your Child?
[ad_1] This week our children are returning to school. They are ecstatic, and we’re pretty excited too. This is the beginning of our fourth year as Waldorf parents, and our enthusiasm hasn’t waned over time. On the contrary, every year we are more certain that Waldorf is the perfect place to send our children. The effect of a Waldorf education is to grow a child, with careful tending, into a strong, deeply rooted, freethinking adult, at home in matters spiritual and mundane — and able to see the spiritual in the mundane. The Waldorf curriculum recognizes the child is a creature of nature and of spirit, and both of these…
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Can We Offer First Grade Reading Help For a Child With Learning Disabilities?
[ad_1] First grade reading help is not easily available in a lot of places around the globe for a child with learning disabilities. In the minds of many, a child with learning disabilities is very often not even detectable before grade two, when they begin to exhibit behavior problems or fall behind their peers in reading, writing and spelling. Nevertheless, all practitioners agree that if we can identify the problems early enough, first grade reading help could make a enormous difference in the future education of a child with learning disabilities. Why then do we wait to offer the first grade reading help that many of these kids so desperately…
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The Development of Old Age and Related Issues
[ad_1] In traditional Chinese and other Asian cultures the aged were highly respected and cared for. The Igabo tribesmen of Eastern Nigeria value dependency in their aged and involve them in care of children and the administration of tribal affairs (Shelton, A. in Kalish R. Uni Michigan 1969). In Eskimo culture the grandmother was pushed out into the ice-flow to die as soon as she became useless. Western societies today usually resemble to some degree the Eskimo culture, only the “ice-flows” have names such a “Sunset Vista” and the like. Younger generations no longer assign status to the aged and their abandonment is always in danger of becoming the social…
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Top 20 Reasons Why Children Should Study Music
[ad_1] All you need to do is visit the kids’ audio/video section of your local CD shop and you will be bombarded with a multitude of educational enhancement products to buy. You may find ‘Baby Einstein’ or ‘Brainy Baby’ and an abundance of similar merchandise to make your child smarter. These types of goods can be a wonderful way to introduce music to your children before the age of three. However, nothing can replace private music lessons for a 3 to 9 year old. The brain develops at a rapid rate between birth and three and is an essential window for the development of neurons. Therefore, encouraging musical exploration is…
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The Importance of the Three Year Cycle
[ad_1] Montessori education is based on the child’s plane of development taking into account the child’s needs and attributes at each plane, these needs and attributes operate in three year cycles, and maximum educational progress is achieved when the educational system acknowledges this fact. All of Dr. Montessori’s educational philosophy is based on years of scientific observation of the child. Through observation she concluded that the child is born with all the necessary features to become an individual, and passes through different planes of development in 3 year cycles. Planes of Development. First Plane: 0-6 This is a period of transformation, divided into two parts: 0—3 years: At this stage…
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Children’s Books Promote Moral Development
[ad_1] The biggest concern of most parents when choosing a book is the moral values it teaches their children. It is because a book with clear moral values conveys unambiguous transformation and absorption towards children’s development. In fact, moral development deals with the gradual and progressive growth of a child’s understanding on grasping the wrong and right principles that are associated to values, social attitudes, and behaviors, which is pertinent to their developmental stages. In connection with this, there are numerous and easy-to-reach books embedded with moral stories to choose nowadays. Actually, moral stories build children’s imaginations and create big pictures in their minds for a strong foundation of their…