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Top-Ranked Articles on NewFoundations Site

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A list of 20 articles found on the NewFoundations website with their search engine ranking as computed by Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

Search terms are given and verification procedures are indicated.
Additional high-ranked articles are indicated but without rankings.

Five Essays: Causation in Teaching and Learning

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Causal Fallacies in Teaching and Learning
Ambiguities in the concepts of teaching and learning support various fallacies in reasoning with the concepts.

Models of Learning
Learning as process vs. product is discussed. Basic assumptions about learning are articulated. Character formation, gain in understanding and skills acquisition are models of learning the preference for which depends on cultural and other contexts.

Models of Teaching
Basic assumptions about teaching are articulated and examined. Models of teaching from a variety of traditions are identified: telling, initiating,training and nurturing.

Can Morality Be Taught?
Is virtue acquired by teaching or by practice, or if neither by teaching nor practice, then does it come to man by nature, or in some other way? Ascriptive and summative learnings are distinguished and contrasted.

Teaching, Learning Models and School Image
The image of the school, Temple, Factory or Public Arena, that one entertains determines the causal relationships believed to hold between teaching and learning.

PRODUCTION vs POLITICS: Two Faces of American Public Education

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A list of articles illustrating important facets of productivity and politics presented in the form of a concept map.

Materials for Inquiry into Religion

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Catalog of Materials for Policy Studies

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Catalog of Materials for Organizational Studies

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Organizational Issues and Insights

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Aspects of organizational functioning and culture

Catalog of Materials Relating to Language Study

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Catalog of Materials for History: discussion & research items

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Catalog of Materials for Studies in Higher Education

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Materials for Teaching General Issues in Philosophy

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Materials for Teaching Ethics & Values

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Materials for Studies in Culture & Diversity

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Catalog of Materials Relating to the Classroom Environment

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Catalog of Materials for Administrative Studies

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Interrogatories, bibliographies, articles, diagrams, and applications documents.

Materials for Social Foundations of Education

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Discussion activities, bibliographies, articles, analytical frameworks, and models.

Discussion and Research Materials to Supplement Studies in History.

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Bibliographies, timelines, brief histories, applications and guide documents.

Curriculum and Planning Materials Catalog

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Theoretical and practical items for evaluation, analysis and construction in planning and curriculum theory.

Catalog of Materials for Psychology Studies

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Articles, discussion sheets, problems for analysis providing applications of psychological theories and concepts.

Materials for Philosophy of Education

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Articles, discussion sheets, problems for analysis for providing applications of philosophical skills and concepts.

Catalog of Materials for Critical Thinking;

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Articles, worksheets, summaries, definitions, and discussion items for use in teaching critical thinking skills.

NewFoundations Book Archives

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Contains archives of NewFoundations books as well as reissues from other publishers of hard-to-find books.

Interrogatories for Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution

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An interrogatory is a set of questions composed and structured to yield consistent and comparable results within a given discipline, field of inquiry or practice. Multiple examples are provided either schematically or embedded in explanatory text.

NewFoundations Blog TOPICS & ISSUES

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An index of issues and topics introduced on NewFoundations Bloglocus with hyperlinks to articles.

Model Cases for Analysis

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Learn how to contrast, compare and classify closely related ideas by examining behaviorally described situations for critical characteristics. Instructions, examples, worksheets and data sheets provided.

Philosophy of Education: readings and related assignments

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Readings and Related Assignments for: Distance Learning Projects , Independent Studies and Advanced Preparation of Intensive Study Seminar

No Biz Like Ed Biz

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The droll, the absurd, the funny, the unbelievable -- and education is supposed to be so dull, so pedestrian, so unexciting!

Preventing Plagiarism & Cheating

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How widespread is academic cheating? How is it done? What can you do about it?

What is plagiarism? How can you recognize it? What can you do about it?

Writing a Dissertation

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Instructions, suggestions and considerations

NewFoundations Bloglocus

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Alternatives to the drivel usually promulgated about education.

What is Woman?

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Famous and Infamous men, often with foot in mouth, weigh in on the "nature" of the female gender.

Charts, Diagrams, Illustrations and PowerPoint Presentations

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Useful for organizing information in multiple dimensions.

Topic Pathfinders

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Web Sources for Important Issues in Education and Related Fields

Ethical Issues in Education

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Practicing educators reflect on professional concerns

Controversy Analysis

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Introduces a procedure and gives examples of controversies analyzed via a standard interrogatory.

Ethical Argument, Practical Proposal

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In each of the essays given, a proposal is presented. Each author undertakes a. to show that at root there is an issue of ethical import. b. to provide each proposal (the claim) with a supporting structure of justification according to Toulmin: evidence, warrants and bases. c. to provide a cursory cost-benefit analysis probabilized over the short and long run; and d. to address rebuttals related to Cue, Concern and Control.

Ethics in Educational Practice

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Articles Addressing Morality or Ethics in Educational Practice

Gallery of Educational Theorists

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Everyone analyzed in this gallery has had his or her theories investigated in eight areas of concern: What is Worth Knowing? What is Knowledge? What is the Human Being? What is Learning? How is Knowledge to be Transmitted? What is Society? Who is to Have the Opportunity? What is Consensus?

Misgivings & Reconsiderations

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Second thoughts about some "bright ideas" in education.

Organizational Issues and Insights

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Can an organization be responsible for failure if no one in it is not? Are moral organizations possible? What are the cost and benefits of organization? For whom?

Policy Issues and Analyses

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What makes a good policy? A bad one? Does a policy have to work? Do we need policy at all?

Program Planning in a Competitive Environment

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Why should anyone care about your proposal? How can you convince them to support it? How can you convince them to reject your competitor's?