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Conversation On Instructional Design, Robert M. Gagné, M. David Merrill

University Extension - OCW

This conversation between Dr. Robert Gagné, and Dr. M. David Merrill, took place July 10, 1989 before an audience of about 200 at Utah State University. A series of papers based on this discussion later appeared in Educational Technology Magazine. The conversation highlights the main points of Gagne and Merrill's respective learning theories, and a comparison of the events of instruction, and Component Display Theory.

From Wikipedia -Robert Mills Gagné was an American educational psychologist best known for his "Conditions of Learning". Gagné pioneered the science of instruction during WWII for the air force with pilot training. Later he went …

Existentialist Themes In Three Works, Mark D. Morrison

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

The goals behind researching and writing this thesis are multifaceted and although many are outside of the scope of this paper, they express basic reasons for my choice. The paper is titled "Existentialist Themes in Three Works", and development and discussion are literary and philosophical in focus.

The first and most important reason for my choice was that, being a biology major, this project has provided the opportunity to pursue one of my minors, French. It has given me the chance to work under the direct tutelage of Dr. Lynne Goodhart, whom I would like to thank wholeheartedly. All three …

Music And Plato In Shakespeare's Henry Iv, Part I, Kenneth R. Williams

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Surprisingly, the importance of music in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has received little attention from modern scholars. Much has been written on the music which would have affected Shakespeare, but no one has focused his or her attention on Shakespeare's use of music as a dramatic device, i.e., as an aid to intensify and forward action, convey meaning, portray characters, and create atmosphere, such as a mood of mysticism or awe. In Henry IV, which I shall consider here, music as a dramatic device supports the Platonic concept of unity and the tripartite structure of both the …

The Ute Indians And The Public School System: A Historical Analysis, 1900-1985, Kim M. Gruenwald

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis is a historical case study of the Ute Indians of eastern Utah. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how federal Indian education policy is implemented at the local level. Ute children attend school in the Uintah and Duchesne county school districts.

The thesis traces Ute experiences in public schools during crucial transitions in federal policy. From 1900 to 1930, the federal government sought to enroll Indians in public schools in order to teach them white ways. Indian enrollment increased in the 1940s and 1950s when federal funding made the attendance of Ute children lucrative to the …

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 15, 1989

Journal of Mormon History

• --Irreconcilable Differences: David H. Smith's Relationship with the Muse of Mormon History

Valeen Tippetts Avery, 3

• --The New England Origins of Mormonism Revisited

Grant Underwood, 15

• --Anti-Mormonism in Illinois: Thomas C. Sharp's Unfinished History of the Mormon War, 1845

Roger D. Launius, 27

• Houses with Two Fronts: The Evolution of Domestic Architectural Design in a Mormon Community

Keith Bennett and Thomas Carter, 47

• --The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857: The Rhetoric and the Reality

Paul H. Peterson, 59

• --Modern Lysistratas: Mormon Women in the International Peace Movement, 1899-1939

Leonard J. Arrington, 89

• --From the Age of Science to an …

Putnam On 'Empirical Objects', Gorden Steinhoff

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Putnam claims that the objects we experience are “mind-dependent” and “theory-dependent”. He also writes that they are “constructed within our theories”. It is difficult to say what he means by these claims. I conclude that, according to Putnam, “empirical objects” do not really exist. But I attempt to show the sense in which he can be considered a realist about these objects. Putnam has adopted an idealism which allows for the correctness of realist claims within appropriate contexts. I also discuss Putnam's solution to the problem of how we manage to refer to “empirical objects”. I argue that this solution, …