Author Archives: rodclarken

About rodclarken

Dr. Rodney H Clarken is professor emeritus, School of Education, Northern Michigan University.

You Tube Videos

Posted on February 24, 2020 by rodclarken

Latest video Prejudice: Overcoming Our Most Challenging Issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC4DPfSsl6c&feature=share Published on Jun 9, 2020. Explores the 5 most destructive prejudices: race, sex, class, nation and religion, which are the greatest barriers to justice, unity and peace. Using truth, love and … Continue reading →

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DEVELOPING HUMAN POTENTIAL: SELECTED BAHÁ’Í WRITINGS

Posted on September 8, 2017 by rodclarken

Developing Human Potential-Selected Baha’i Writings Below are the contents with their page numbers. Click the link above to go to the document. I. Human Nature and Development…………………………………………………………………..4 A. Follow not the promptings of the self……………………………………………………………..4 B. Lower and higher natures………………………………………………………………………………….4 … Continue reading →

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Understanding Human Nature and Developing Human Potential

Posted on August 23, 2012 by rodclarken

Note: I retired as a professor of education in August of 2012 and have left the USA to serve in a voluntary capacity overseas. I do not plan to post any more blogs in the foreseeable future. For those who are interested, … Continue reading →

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Educational Standards and Assessment Factors

Posted on August 21, 2012 by rodclarken

Note: This blog entry is the last in a series that looked at learning principles and factors from both a scientific (APA Learner-Centered Principles) and religious (Baha’i) perspective. Knowledge is like wings for development or a ladder for the ascent … Continue reading →

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Individual Differences Factors

Posted on August 14, 2012 by rodclarken

Each person has unique endowments, powers, responsibilities, talents, interests and capabilities based on innate, inherited and acquired characteristics. Inherited characteristics come from our genetic makeup and acquired characteristics come from education as our genetic endowments interacting with the environment. Innate … Continue reading →

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Developmental Factors

Posted on August 12, 2012 by rodclarken

Developmental factors play and important role in learning. Development is the process of potentiality becoming actuality. The basic human capacities of loving, knowing and willing seek expression in life. At conception, unique genetic potentialities are endowed upon each person. In … Continue reading →

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Moral and Spiritual Factors

Posted on August 11, 2012 by rodclarken

(Note: I took a hiatus from the blog for three weeks as I was finishing up my work at my university. Thursday was my last day of work, after almost 24 years at NMU and 38 years in education. I … Continue reading →

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Social Factors in Learning

Posted on July 20, 2012 by rodclarken

Learning is greatly influenced by our interactions with significant others and begins immediately at birth. Our first and most primary relationship is with our parents, especially our mothers, and then with our families. Our interactions with others involve the basic … Continue reading →

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Emotional Factors in Learning

Posted on July 19, 2012 by rodclarken

Motivations and emotions may have an evolutionary purpose or function related to self-preservation, pain avoidance and gratification. However, if we were chiefly guided by our instinctual motivations and emotions, we would live more like animals. We can raise motivations and … Continue reading →

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Motivation

Posted on July 18, 2012 by rodclarken

While the cognitive and metacognitive factors above focus more on the mind, the motivational factors deal mostly with the heart and will. Successful learners must use and balance all these faculties. Motivation is dependent on having a purpose in life—no … Continue reading →

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