Education

Below are the articles under the tag Education.

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Effective Use of Education as a Tool to Shape Attitudes: the Australian Experience

01 March 2011 | Zuleyha Keskin | Issue 80 (March - April 2011)

We often think of education in the context of a classroom environment, where one teaches and the others learn; a monologue between the learned and ...

Renewers

01 March 2010 | Yasin Ceran | Issue 74 (March - April 2010)

If education is an act of “renewal” in beliefs, ideas, hopes, happiness, misery, and practices, a renewal that contributes towards the enhancement...

The Education of Gifted Children

01 March 2009 | Hayati Tarhan | Issue 68 (March - April 2009)

Humans are created with different levels of ability. A person who is talented in one specific field may not necessarily be as capable in other area...

Understanding Today's Schools with Chaos Theory

01 March 2008 | Aydin Kara | Issue 62 (March - April 2008)

Today’s schools are more complex systems than the one-room schools of the past. However, most of the beliefs and expectations about schools today s...

Peer Instruction: A Better Way to Learn

01 January 2008 | Ertan Salik | Issue 61 (January - February 2008)

Teaching and learning are two common human activities. If we need to name a great difference between humans and animals, this is the one. As Nursi ...

How Can We Motivate Our Children To Learn?

01 October 2007 | Rahila Bashir | Issue 60 (October - December 2007)

How often do we hear the words “I hate maths” or “I don’t want to do my homework” and “I don’t like school.” Just imagine how a carer or parent who...

The Aftermath of Love

01 July 2007 | Victor H. Earnest | Issue 59 (July - September 2007)

How sad, how poor; we are eaten up by the chase. Hurtled all around, we sob and rustle As if we resemble winnowed leaves Since life path trample...

How to Become a Bad Teacher

01 October 2006 | Ibrahim Sel | Issue 56 (October - December 2006)

Teachers are entrusted with the jewels of life: Our children. Sometimes teachers may be overwhelmed with this very important task. The teacher-stu...

Towards a Multicultural Society and Education

01 April 2006 | Mehmet A. Ocak | Issue 54 (April - June 2006)

Democratic societies are strengthened by fundamental principles, such as freedom, equality, and justice. To keep the identities of people who produ...

Adab: Education of One's Ego - A Model for Gifted Education

01 July 2005 | Seth Mette | Issue 51 (July - September 2005)

Although some people deny the existence of super talents, rather seeing success as a result of extreme concentration and hard work, most people agr...

The Role of Education for Dialogue

01 July 2005 | Ugur Tarman | Issue 51 (July - September 2005)

“No one yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education shoul...

Service-Learning: An Alternative Teaching and Pedagogy

01 April 2005 | Dr. Naim F. Erdem | Issue 50 (April - June 2005)

Civic commitment has been a major emphasis of education around the world since ancient times. Public education was founded on the notion that peopl...

CONSTRUCTIVISM in Piaget and Vygotsky

01 October 2004 | Ozgur Ozer | Issue 48 (October - December 2004)

Constructivism is a new approach in education that claims humans are better able to understand the information they have constructed by themselves....

Appropriate Messages in Child Training

01 July 2004 | Hasan Aydinli | Issue 47 (July - September 2004)

An old Chinese proverb says that: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for the rest of his life.” This...

How To Make Our Children Love Reading

01 October 2003 | Harun Avci | Issue 44 (October - December 2003)

When reading is mentioned, we usually talk about the reading habit of adults, and ignore that of our children. However, if children do not read, if...

Self-inflation or Self-improvement?

01 July 2003 | The Fountain | Issue 43 (July - September 2003)

A Different Approach to Self-improvement (By M.Fethullah GULEN...) In our contemporary world, our self and our ego have become unbridled, insolen...

Women and their Legal Rights in Monotheistic Religions

01 January 2003 | Dr. Sherif Muhammad | Issue 41 (January - March 2003)

Introduction Eve’s fault? Eve’s legacy Shameful daughters Female education Unclean and impure women Bearing witness Vows A wife’s propert...

Advocating for Gifted and Talented Student Programs

01 July 2002 | Ozgur Ozer | Issue 39 (July - September 2002)

Our school systems need to advocate for curricula differentiation and for grouping gifted and talented students. Advocates of gifted and talented s...

The Virtual University and E-Learning

01 April 2002 | Dr. Sezai Sablak | Issue 38 (April - June 2002)

The perennial questions How do people learn? and What do they need to know? have challenged educators since the time of Socrates (d. 339 BCE) to ou...

Language and Cognition: An Unexplored Territory

01 January 1999 | Dr. Joseph J. Bright | Issue 25 (January - March 1999)

The desire to investigate the secrets of knowledge and cognition goes back to ancient times. The Egyptians, during the seventh century BC, wondered...

Understanding in Teaching

01 January 1999 | H. Aydin | Issue 25 (January - March 1999)

I. INTRODUCTION Although it is difficult to explain the concept of understanding briefly, we will try to give a brief account of its meaning and c...

Degrees of Superior Intelligence and Special Education

01 October 1998 | Melih Yalcineli | Issue 24 (October - December 1998)

Just as we encounter people with low intelligence or almost no intelligence at all, in a similar way it is possible to find people with above avera...

Education from Cradle to Grave

01 October 1997 | M. Fethullah Gulen | Issue 20 (October - December 1997)

Introduction The main duty and purpose of human life is to seek understanding. The effort of doing so, known as education, is a perfecting process...

The Role Of The Teacher

01 October 1996 | A. A. Ahmed | Issue 16 (October - December 1996)

This article deals with the role of the teacher in the learning process. Different views of the teacher The curriculum is a process. It is not a ...

Gifted Children

01 July 1996 | Y. Yilmaz | Issue 15 (July - September 1996)

Most parents greet the discovery that their child is gifted with a mixture of pride, excitement, and apprehension. Then, they may well seek expert ...

Games And Toys

01 April 1996 | M. A. Sahin | Issue 14 (April - June 1996)

Games, sports and play with toys are an important part of a fully rounded programme of education. We hope for the day when educational psychologist...

Discipline In The Home

01 January 1996 | M. A. Sahin | Issue 13 (January - March 1996)

Bringing up children successfully means caring for them so that they grow up to be independent, responsible human beings. That entails training the...

New Horizons In Education Multimedia And Interactive Computing

01 July 1995 | B. Erzurumluoglu | Issue 11 (July - September 1995)

The time an individual can devote to catching up with the expanding information-base of humanity is limited. But he or she has to do it: informatio...

Coping With Teacher Stress

01 January 1995 | Dr. R. Abaci | Issue 9 (January - March 1995)

Occupational stress Working patterns have changed drastically over the last decade with few reaping the benefits of advances in technology. Occupa...

Ideal Schools of the Future

10 January 1994 | J. Hardy | Issue 8 (October - December 1994)

Physical setting Where the school is situated effects the quality of education it can provide. Ideally it should be detached from urban centres. N...

Ghazali and Educational Philosophy

10 January 1994 | B. Behardin | Issue 8 (October - December 1994)

Ghazali's search for knowledge Abu Hamid Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Ghazali was born in the city of , northern Persia (Iran), in the year 1058/450H....

Islamic Perpective on Knowledge and Learning

01 January 1993 | M.h Kayani | Issue 1 (January - March 1993)

Progress in knowledge and technology may be likened to the widening ripples caused by a pebble thrown in a pool of water. All civilizations have be...

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Education

Articles

The New Normal

Cyberbullying and Digital Citizenship

Cultivating a Limitless Mind in the Age of Growth Mindset

Water, the Power of Positivity, and Education

Life and Education Based on Positive Thought

Virtual Reality as a Learning Tool in Modern Education

Education: Reconstructing Norms and Empowering Dialogue

Prejudice and Ways to Avoid It in Education

Building Knowledge Palaces

Is It Possible to Measure Everything?

Service in the Face of Obstructions

Stem Education and Why It Is Important for Countries’ Global Leadership

Self-Education: What To Do with the Naughty Child Inside?

The Qur’an and Education: Transcending How We Understand Difference

Literacy, Violence, and Reading Habits in the World

Birth of Physical Principles of Educational Philosophy

Civil Rights, the Hizmet Movement, and the Liberative Power of Education

Why Math Education?

Speaking: A Magical Gift

Pre-marital Counseling for Prosperous Marriages

"Hoop Dreaming"

What Is Missing in Science Education?

Gamification: A Tool for Motivating Children

Animated Vignettes in Character Education

21st Century Skills for Students

Becoming a "Good" Foreign Language Teacher: Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions

Teaching Metaphors

A School of Dreams with Renewed Teachers

Sustainable Curiosity: How to Invigorate Curiosity for Scientific Literacy

Childhood Education in the Anatolian Heritage

My Brother's Plum Tree

How Collaboration Makes a Difference in Dispute Resolution

Questioning Techniques and Wait Time

Ability or Disability: An Unforgettable Experience at a Specialist School

Advanced Placement Phenomenon

Walking in the Shoes of Others: Stepping in and out of Turkey

What Generations Expect from Education

Building an Ethical and Shared Future through Education in a Glocal Perspective

Reward and Praise in Education: When, How and for What Purpose?

Values in Education: Democratic Values

Gifted Education: A Dilemma

Character Education for Academic Achievement

Utilizing Social Capital through Exemplary Leadership in Schools

Effective Use of Education as a Tool to Shape Attitudes: the Australian Experience

Renewers

The Education of Gifted Children

Understanding Today's Schools with Chaos Theory

Peer Instruction: A Better Way to Learn

How Can We Motivate Our Children To Learn?

The Aftermath of Love

How to Become a Bad Teacher

Towards a Multicultural Society and Education

Adab: Education of One's Ego - A Model for Gifted Education

The Role of Education for Dialogue

Service-Learning: An Alternative Teaching and Pedagogy

CONSTRUCTIVISM in Piaget and Vygotsky

Appropriate Messages in Child Training

How To Make Our Children Love Reading

Self-inflation or Self-improvement?

Women and their Legal Rights in Monotheistic Religions

Advocating for Gifted and Talented Student Programs

The Virtual University and E-Learning

Language and Cognition: An Unexplored Territory

Understanding in Teaching

Degrees of Superior Intelligence and Special Education

Education from Cradle to Grave

The Role Of The Teacher

Gifted Children

Games And Toys

Discipline In The Home

New Horizons In Education Multimedia And Interactive Computing

Coping With Teacher Stress

Ideal Schools of the Future

Ghazali and Educational Philosophy

Islamic Perpective on Knowledge and Learning

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