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  2. Traditional education - Wikipedia

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    Traditional education, also known as back-to-basics, conventional education or customary education, refers to long-established customs that society has traditionally used in schools. Some forms of education reform promote the adoption of progressive education practices, and a more holistic approach which focuses on individual students' needs ...

  3. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

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    Furthermore, Porter argues that the way people die is very much dependent on the disease they are suffering from, and it is difficult to make comparisons and generalize a single mode of death. Finally, although Ariès's periodization of western attitudes toward death was one of his biggest contributions, many critics questioned the periods he ...

  4. Classical education movement - Wikipedia

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    The traditional text for teaching logic was Aristotle's Logic. In the modern renaissance of classical education, this logic stage (or dialectic stage) refers to the junior high or middle school aged student, who developmentally is beginning to question ideas and authority, and truly enjoys a debate or an argument.

  5. Death and culture - Wikipedia

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    In modern-day European-based folklore, Death is known as the "Grim Reaper" or "The grim spectre of death". This form typically wields a scythe , and is sometimes portrayed riding a white horse. In the Middle Ages , Death was imagined as a decaying or mummified human corpse, later becoming the familiar skeleton in a robe.

  6. Didactic method - Wikipedia

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    The second step, called the "internal transposition" (transposition interne) is about how the knowledge to teach is transformed into "taught knowledge" (savoir enseigné), which is the knowledge actually taught through the day-to-day concrete practices of a teacher in a teaching context, e.g. in a classroom, and which depends on their students ...

  7. Guru - Wikipedia

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    In pan-Indian traditions, a guru is more than a teacher: traditionally, the guru is a reverential figure to the disciple (or shisya in Sanskrit, literally seeker [of knowledge or truth]) or student, with the guru serving as a "counselor, who helps mold values, shares experiential knowledge as much as literal knowledge, an exemplar in life, an ...

  8. Authentic learning - Wikipedia

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    Simulation-Based Learning: Students engage in simulations and role-playing in order to be put in situations where the student has to actively participate in the decision making of a project. This helps in "developing valuable communication, collaboration, and leadership skills that would help the student succeed as a professional in the field ...

  9. Constructivist teaching methods - Wikipedia

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    The constructivist classroom also focuses on daily activities when it comes to student work. Teaching methods also emphasize communication and social skills, as well as intellectual collaboration. [3] This is different from a traditional classroom where students primarily work alone, learning through repetition and lecture.