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Educational Standards and Assessment Factors

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

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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Social Factors in Learning

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

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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Strategic Development in Learning

Understanding the capacity-building process enables us to reflect upon, refine and apply our capacities to new situations to enhance our autonomy and responsibility. Just as artisans need to be skilled in their trade and the strategies of their craft, so … Continue reading

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Constructing Capacity

We build capacity based on our existing capacities. If these bases are weak, or not well-formed, then additional constructions on them are bound to suffer. As we learn and develop more, broadening and deepening our truth, love and justice, we … Continue reading

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The Nature of Goals

Goals affect learning. Our minds, hearts and wills are goal directed. Truth, love and justice should be the primary goals of our minds, hearts and wills and make all other goals positive and powerful. The more we are aware of … Continue reading

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The Nature and Context of Learning

Understanding our cognitive and metacognitive learning processes is a key to promoting human happiness and well-being. Information and experience are the material we use to construct and generate meaning. One process of learning results from interactions with the environment using … Continue reading

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Combining Learning Principles from Science and Religion

I am starting a series on combining principles from science and religion that will be taken from my book, Truth, Love and Justice: A New Paradigm for Education and Its Reform, which can be obtained for free on my website … Continue reading

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New editions of books available

I have just posted revised editions of my two books: Truth, Love and Justice: A New Paradigm for Education and Its Reform, Version 5/2/12    Education Under Attack: What Schools Can and Cannot Do and How Popular Reforms Hurt Them, … Continue reading

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