Introduction According to the work of Helen Patrick, et al entitled: "How Teachers Establish Psychological Environment During the First Days of School: Avoidance in Mathematics" that: "Observations of the first days of school in eight sixth-grade classrooms identified three different classroom en...

For years, prescriptive, teacher-oriented, objectivist classrooms have endured as a mainstay of the American educational enterprise. Research in the past two decades has created a climatic change in education. Piagetian Constructism, the construction of disseminated knowledge into a learner, has ...

Learner Profile The impact of Distance Education on the process of learning defines not only distinct roles for the instructor, the instruction and the technology involved but also the role of the distance learner who faces a change from the traditional learning environment to a new setting. The...