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  COMPARATIVE EDUCATION AND ITS SCOPE By: Ms Kashfia Latafat According to Wikipedia Comparative Education  is a discipline in the social sciences which entails the scrutiny and evaluation of different educational systems, such as those in various countries. Professionals in this area of endeavor are absorbed in advancing evocative terminologies and guidelines for education worldwide, enhancing educational structures and producing a context to which the success and effectively of education programs and initiatives can be assessed. The Meaning of Comparative Education: It’s a human nature to compare things which has similarities. In the same way comparison of different educational systems in context of geographical, economic, political and cultural aspects is comes under the umbrella of comparative study. Like other studies comparative education is a field that is source of attraction for many philosophers which conducting their own comparisons or produce definitions of ...

  How people learn? By: Ms Kashfia Latafat I believe that people learn most by their own experiences and by reflecting on them. Reflection helps in improving the learners understanding. According to Jean Piaget (1896-1980) learning is a developmental cognitive process. Learners create knowledge rather than receive knowledge from the teacher. Piaget recognized that learners construct knowledge based on their experiences and how do they so is related to their biological, physical and mental stage of development.   The Russian scientist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) extended Piaget’s developmental theory of constructivism. He emphasized the role that culture and language play in developing learners’ thinking and the ways in which teachers and peers assist learners in developing new ideas and skills. Vygotsky proposed the concept of the Zone of proximal development (ZPD), it is the level where learning takes place but learner reach that point by the guidance of teacher or in collab...

Learning Experience in Education Learning Experiences Learning experience  refers to any interaction, course, program, or other experience in which learning takes place, whether it occurs in traditional academic settings (schools, classrooms) or nontraditional settings (outside-of-school locations, outdoor environments), or whether it includes traditional educational interactions (students learning from teachers and professors) or nontraditional interactions (students learning through games and interactive software applications).   (Reference by: www.edglossary.org)   General Principles in Selecting Learning Experiences: 1.      For a given objective to be attained, a student must have experiences that give him/her an opportunity to practice the kind of behavior implied by the objective. 2.      The learning experience must be such that the student obtains satisfaction from carrying on the kind of behavior implied by t...

  Role of Cultural Factors in Policy Making Process. What is Culture? Culture can be defined as a social heritage of an organized community or society which is a pattern of responses that have been discovered and invented when the group has interacted which is a combination of beliefs, customs, religions, and arts while education is the process of imparting knowledge or acquiring ..   What is Policy? A method of action selected by government or private organization from present alternatives and in the light of given conditions to guide and, usually, to determine present and future decisions.   The importance of Cultural Factors in Policy Making Process: Policy making process main objectives are (i) improve the attraction for teaching (ii) eliminate teacher shortages and (iii) Achieve Education for All (EFA) goals. For achieving these goals many measures are needed to take in order to fulfill the requirements....