Education and Training: Examining The Purpose of Education

The Purpose of Education by Denise N. Fyffe Today, we cannot survive without education. It is the catalyst that helps us to navigate the world and achieve our objectives in life. It helps to launch us through whatever social, economic, physical, or societal demands that we encounter. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Upon close inspection,…

Career Development: Examining Strategies for Advancing Career Development in Jamaica

Strategies for Advancing Career Development in Jamaica by Denise N. Fyffe   Career Development is both a social and economic policy issue and it is the foundation of the school-to-work process. Career development issues must be debated at the national level if we are going to articulate that the education system has primary responsibility for…

Developmental Psychology: Examining the Five Stages of Coping with Death

Examining the Five Stages of Coping with Death by Denise N. Fyffe   Accepting the death and dying process is extremely hard. Dying is something that everyone will go through. People may feel angry, sad, or frightened and may blame themselves or think they have done something wrong. These feelings are common. This process is…

Education and Training: Examining the Instructional Media

Education and Training: Examining Instructional Media by Denise N. Fyffe Instructional media are methods of communication used in the delivery of information to enable learning, and transfer knowledge and skills to students i.e. training and education or how the methods and processes which result in pupils' behavior change are transmitted. There are several types of…

Career Development: Examining Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Examining Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Denise N. Fyffe In the workplace, there is a silent and oftentimes threatening illness for employers and employees alike. This is the threat and the lack of knowledge of proper ergonomics. Ergonomics Ergonomics is defined as the science of fitting workplace conditions and job demands to the capabilities of workers…

Developmental Psychology: Examining the Changes of Middle and Late Adulthood

Examining the Changes of Middle and Late Adulthood by Denise N. Fyffe According to Sdorow (2003), the average lifespan in 1850 was 40 years. However, due to improvements in nutrition, sanitation, and health care, the lifespan has almost doubled. The lifespan more than a century ago is today simply the beginning of middle adulthood. Also,…

Career Development: Critique, Story Come to Bump!

Critique, Story Come to Bump! by Denise N. Fyffe Title: Story come to bump! Authors: Peter Espeut Source: The Daily Gleaner, July 5, 2006   ‘Story come to bump’, is an enlightening article written in the prestigious Daily Gleaner, on July 5, 2006 by Peter Espeut. He is a sociologist and executive director of an environment…

Education and Training: How Education and Gender Impact Work – Part 3

Education The community needs individuals to perform a wide array of crucial functions if it is to prosper but if a community elects to reward only a small number of those functions, say, entrepreneurial success, then a condemnation of that society ensues. As a neo-Darwinian, John Dewey believed the key to survival is diversity not…

Developmental Psychology: Examining the Designs to Study Development, in Psychology

Examining the Designs to Study Development, in Psychology by Denise N. Fyffe   Developmental Psychology is the study of physical, perceptual, cognitive, and psychosocial changes that take place across the life span (Sdorow, 1993). It can also be looked at as the changes that take place throughout a person’s entire life span. These changes may…

Education and Training: How Education and Gender Impact Work – Part 2

The History of Work Since Philosophy is the art, which teaches us how to live, those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is and according to (Fowles, 1964, The Aristos) they are also those who have the most say in the…