Active Learning
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Active Learning

by Begabati Lennihan

The author highlights the concept of Knowledge-Skills-Attitude and the concept of Scaffolding to describe his ideas about active learning.

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Creative Inquiry
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Creative Inquiry

by Alfonso Montuori PhD

In this paper the author discusses two educational models; the “Reproductive” and the “Narcissistic,” and proposes an alternative he calls “Creative Inquiry”. In Creative Inquiry the goal is to honor the passion, creativity, and transformative process that can be a central part of inquiry.

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Experiential Learning in Homeopathy
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Experiential Learning in Homeopathy

by Richard Pitt

Some of the basic human qualities needed to become a homeopath are insight, intuition, compassion, maturity, common sense and humility. As we acquire more knowledge, experience and results, it is easy to become identified with our success and with the knowledge this gives.  We need to cultivate a questioning attitude toward acquired knowledge and experience and to resist rigidifying homeopathic knowledge.

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Thoughts on Working with the Adult Learner
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Thoughts on Working with the Adult Learner

by Loretta Butehorn PhD, CCH

For nearly a century now, educators have debated and explored the terrain of the adult learner.  In the 1950’s, Benjamin Bloom PhD led a group of psychologists in examining the learning technology in universities.  What they hypothesized was that learning is a function of multiple strategies.  Each of us learns in a variety of ways, with each strategy of learning taking us deeper into the topic we are seeking to master.

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Study of the Materia Medica
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Study of the Materia Medica

by Constantine Hering

To study a remedial agent is to attentively observe its symptoms and curative powers, without any reference to particular cases or particular diseases. It is to consider all its effects as connected with one another. All its individual symptoms are seen as separate parts of a whole. The many changes produced in the sensations by its action, which have been separately observed and collected together, are to be regarded as symptoms of one and the same artificial disease. They are seen to belong to one morbid picture.

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