“If you want to be an effective teacher, do what an effective teacher does.” Teachers’ teaching can be termed as effective if it produces desired change in the behaviour of students. The effectiveness of a teacher depends on the qualities he/she possesses. The qualities required in a teacher are as follows: Personal qualities Social qualities … Read more
Training refers to a process of shaping the conduct and skills that involve power, motion, duration, and coordination among sensory organs, muscles, and principles of learning by doing, practice and feedback. According to Torpey, “Training refers to a process of developing skills, habit, knowledge, and attitudes in employment.” Since teaching is a skillful job, the … Read more
Teaching is the process of facilitating the learners in order to achieve the expected learning outcomes with the assistant of teachers. Since teaching is a very complex phenomenon, there lies controversy about whether teaching is science or art. However, there are two views on the nature of teaching. Teaching as a science Teaching as an … Read more
The poem ‘A Red, Red Rose’ was composed by Scottish poet Robert Burns. It’s a ballad with a voice that expresses the speaker’s deep love for his lover. With the help of typewriters, the poet painted a vivid and realistic portrait of his beloved.
Behaviorism was formally founded by John B. Watson in 1913. During the 19th Century, these were similar views to psychoanalytic and Gestalt movements in psychology but in the 20th Century, there was a result of cognitive revolution and in the 21st Century, behavior analysis emerges as a thriving field in psychology. The behaviorism theorists are … Read more
Jean Piaget a Swiss biologist as well as a Psychologist, was born on 9 August 1896 in Neuchatel and died on 16 September 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland. Arthur Piaget, was his father, was a professor of medieval literature and Rebecca Jackson was his mother who encouraged him to be a devotee. Piaget started writing papers … Read more
Stuart Hall was born in the suburbs of Kingston, Jamaica into a middle call family in 1932. He grew up with continuous negotiations of different cultural spaces especially between colonial and Jamaican origins. Though his father didn’t like him to go to England, he moved there in 1951 and began to study in Oxford. He … Read more
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher, social and intellectual historian and cultural critic. He was born in Poitiers who was the son of upper-middle class parents. After World War II, he went to Paris and was admitted to the esteemed Ecole Normale Superieure in 1946 where he received degrees in Philosophy in 1948 and … Read more
Jacques Derrida was born on 15 July 1930 at EL Biar, Algreia and died on 8 Oct. 2004 at Paris, France. He was born to Sephardic Jewish-parents in French governed Algeria. Derrida was educated in French tradition, studied at the elite Ecole Normale Superieure. He also published many books and lectured at renowned universities like … Read more
John Dewey (1859-1952) studied philosophy at John Hopkins University and had a position in the department of philosophy at Michigan University. He was the very first person who was influenced by German Idealism as it was prevailing in the then academia. Dewey took philosophy as comprehensive psychology. Later on, he shifted it from German Idealism … Read more