Education
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Education Technology and Mental & Physical Health Disorders
by Lawrence Burke The relationship between internet usage and learning through a computer or mobile device is elementary. While there may be differentiation in the assignments or tasks undertaken (personal as opposed to specialized) the media interface is identical. For… Continue reading
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Finding a balance in the Science-Religion debate in school curricula.
by Lawrence Burke “I’m a post-modernist”, claimed the graduating high school student in his Theory of Knowledge paper, “and I believe that soon we will be able to teleport ourselves around the universe…and there is no God as science has… Continue reading
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International Education & Change in the Arab World
by Lawrence Burke In his definitive novel about a quest for meaning from within the Arab World, Naguib Mahfouz (Mahfouz, 1992) chronicles the journey of Ibn Fattouma (Qindil Muhammad al-Innabi) as he leaves his home on a search for an… Continue reading
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Spontaneity and Improvisation in the Classroom
by Lawrence Burke In the 1980s film Dead Poets Society an English teacher John Keating (Robin Williams), inspires his students to change their lives of conformity and become spontaneous, creative individuals who should seize the day (carpe diem). It’s a… Continue reading
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Suggestions on how the international education community can prevent school based homophobia and homophobic bullying and harassment.
by Lawrence Burke On February 12, 2008, 15-year-old Lawrence King an eighth grade student at the E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California, was shot in the head for being gay. He died several days later. His assailant, another male student,… Continue reading
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A Case for International Mindfulness and Compassion in Education
by Lawrence Burke “Reasoning and education, though we are willing to put our trust in them, can hardly be powerful enough to lead us to action, unless besides we exercise and form our soul by experience to the way we… Continue reading
The LB Chronicles by Lawrence Burke, Ed.D 