The Synergy between John Dewey’s Educational Democracy and Levant’s Lebanon Educational Reforms

the relationship between using language learning strategies, learners’ optimism, educational status, duration of learning and demotivation

with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...

The Educational Needs of Democracy

Educational Reforms and Challenges in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia’s traditional export of relatively low-skilled products is facing increased competition. There is therefore a general need to upgrade production in the region, which requires a more skilled and educated labour force. Historically, education has not been emphasized in Southeast Asia but there are indications that this is about to change. This paper starts with a general discussion...

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.

Sustaining Educational Reforms in Introductory Physics

1 to appear in Physical Review: Special Topics PER Sustaining Educational Reforms in Introductory Physics Steven J. Pollock and Noah D. Finkelstein Department of Physics University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, CO 80309 While it is well known which curricular practices can improve student performance on measures of conceptual understanding, the sustaining of these practices and the role of fa...