Learning, Leading and Leaving

Leading, learning and herding

We analyze a game theoretic model of social learning about a consumption good with endogenous timing and heterogeneous accuracy of private information. We show that if individuals value their reputation for the degree to which they are informed, this reduces the incentive to learn by observing others and exacerbates the incentive to consume the good before others, i.e., to attempt to be an “opi...

Male bumblebees perform learning flights on leaving a flower but not when leaving their nest.

Female bees and wasps demonstrate, through their performance of elaborate learning flights, when and where they memorise features of a significant site. An important feature of these flights is that the insects look back to fixate the site that they are leaving. Females, which forage for nectar and pollen and return with it to the nest, execute learning flights on their initial departure from b...

Dimensions and Indices of Leading Transfer of Learning: A Phenomenological Study

In order to identify the dimensions and indices of the phenomenon of “leading transfer of learning” within the secondary schools of Tehran province, a sample of 17 lecturers, principals, and experienced teachers was targeted and then interviewed. Inductive analyses of the collected data at three levels of open, pivotal, and selective coding indicate that the role of high school principals along...

investigating the effect of motivation and attitude towards learning english, learning style preferences and gender on iranian efl learners proficiency

تحقیق حاضر به منظور بررسی تاثیر انگیزه و نگرش نسبت به یادگیری زبان انگلیسی، ترجیحات سبک یادگیری و جنسیت بر بسندگی فراگیران ایرانی زبان انگلیسی انجام شد. برای این منظور، 154 فراگیر ایرانی زبان انگلیسی در این تحقیق شرکت کردند. سه ابزار جمع آوری داده ها شامل آزمون تعیین سطح بسندگی زبان انگلیسی آکسفورد، پرسشنامه ترجیحات سبک یادگیری براچ و پرسشنامه انگیزه و نگرش نسبت به یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به م...

Teacher Leaders: Teaching, Learning and Leading