1. Describe what Montessori meant by ‘’New Education’’? Maria Montessori believed that despite economic and technological development there are conflicts and sufferings instead of peace and harmony in our modern world. She believed that the prevailing social problems were unfulfilled and can only be fulfilled by educating the youth for the generation of balanced adults who would contribute towards world peace. By ‘’New Education’’ she meant that we could set up a new education system that could
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Due to the extensive body of research that has been conducted on the effects in which bilingualism can have on cognitive ability‚ various studies have evidently suggested that children who learn a second language attain higher scores in regards to performance in various tasks throughout their development. One study in particular‚ conducted by Bonifacci‚ Giombini‚ Bellocchi and Contento (2011)‚ identified that bilingual and monolingual children did not differ from each other in elementary cognition
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What is meant by „secularization“ by José Casanova in his book “Public religions in the Modern World”? In his book “Public religion in the Modern World”‚ José Casanova tests the theory of secularization and analyses and explains how religion became public again. In his opinion the role of religion started to shift dominantly into the “public sphere”(p3) again in the 1980s. He gives four arguments to support his assumption that are four developments that preceded to a reassessment of religion’s
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Bilingualism in teaching English Introduction Hong Kong is an officially bilingual territory. It is primarily a Cantonese speaking region‚ although it had been a British colony for over 150 years. About 98% of its population is virtually speakers of Chinese. However‚ English becomes more important as it is an international language and the official language in most countries. There has been a growing concern within the community over the need for a more concerted approach to improving the
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ELA)‚ attributing its motivations to the unification of the country. Because of its ‘coincidental’ timing‚ the nonprofit U.S. English is generally thought to go hand-in-hand with the birth of the English-Only movement and thus‚ the rejection of bilingualism. Influencing 30 out of the 50 states to pass Official English Legislation between 1981 and 2009‚ the heavily funded U.S. English has been met politically with more embrace than backlash. However‚ despite its wide support at both the individual
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Bilingualism in Indonesian Schools Language education is one of the primary educations in human’s early learning. A good mind is build by a good language structure‚ so bilingualism is the important thing that should be emphasized in human’s life. However‚ to apply bilingualism in education‚ people need to spend more money because it is more expensive than regular education system. In Indonesia‚ there are several schools that applying bilingualism in their education system‚ but they are mostly
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problems and learn new skills. Socially play helps children strengthen their bond with others‚ learn social skills and how to fit in with society. Play is an effective way of children learning about their own heritage and culture‚ how to behave and what their culture expects of them. It is also a way of learning about other
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Explain what is meant by the nature-nurture debate with reference to psychological theories and/or studies. Nature versus nurture debate is based on people’s beliefs of whether heredity and genes or environment and upbringing are responsible for physical and behavioural characteristics of a person. This argument started as early as Shakespearean times and had many philosophers and behaviourists arguing and standing by their own opinion. This is still the case today. Going back to the seventeenth
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What is meant be the term “intangible asset?” Intangible assets are defined as identifiable non-monetary assets that cannot not be seen‚ touched or physically measured‚ which are created through time and/or effort and that are identifiable as a separate asset. Corporate intellectual property (items such as patents‚ trademarks‚ copyrights‚ business methodologies)‚ goodwill and brand recognition are all common intangible assets in today’s marketplace. Intangible assets have 3 critical attributes
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English may be the dominant‚ but millions of Americans speak more than just English at home. Bilingualism is all around us; in a country that is dominated by English I think bilingualism would strengthen the United States. Bilingualism is not typical but it is common now a days. With a growing number of people that are bilingual‚ how many are actually fluent? “Writers and journalists routinely use what is called human-interest stories to give presence to issues or arguments”. (Lunsford‚ Ruszkiewicz
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