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The
Four Pillars of Education all started with the report entitled Learning
the Treasure Within of the International Commission of Education for the
Twenty- first Century, chaired by Jacques Delors in 1996.
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Learning to Know implies how to learn by developing
one's concentration, memory skills and ability to think; acquiring the
instrument of understanding.
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Learning to Do represents the skillful, creative and
discerning application of knowledge.
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To
perform a job or work, the learning to do must be fulfilled. This
entails the acquisition of competence that enables people to deal with a
variety of situations, and to work in teams.
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Learning to Live Together is vital in
building a genuine and lasting culture of peace in the world.
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A
wide range of skills is necessary for learning to live together:
self-control, handling emotions, communications, interpretation of behaviors,
critical thinking, relationship building and cooperation, negotiation,
mediation and refusal, problem solving and decision making.
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Learning to Be refers to the role of education in
developing all the dimensions of the complete person: to achieve the physical,
intellectual, emotional and ethical integration of the individual into a
complete man.
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Gender and Development or GAD is an approach on
socially constructed basis of the difference between men and women and
emphasized the need to challenge the existing gender roles and relations.
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Gender socialization is a process by which norms, roles
and expectations in relation to gender are learned by men and women.
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Gender stereotype is a form of prejudgement, bias or
limitation given to roles and expectations of males and females.
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The
primary goal of Multicultural education is to transform the
school so that male and female students,
exceptional students, and students from diverse cultural, social class, racial
and ethnic groups experience an equal opportunity to learn.
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Induction is reasoning that is done through the
process of inferring a general law or principle from the observation of
particular instances to a general conclusion.
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Deduction is reasoning through a process which is
the reverse of induction that is from a general principle to particulars
included within the scope of that principle.
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Dialectic is a means of discovering the truth by
proceeding from an assertion or thesis to a denial or antithesis and finally
reconciling the two into synthesis.
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Human Act proceeds from the deliberate free will of
man.
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Acts of Man are acts that do not proceed from the
deliberate free will of man. These are sometimes instinctive.