Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Muscular strength exercises that use traditional barbells and dumbbells with fixed resistance.  

A system of physical and mental relaxation in which portions of the body are relaxed one by one causing the mind to relax at the same time. Progressive relaxation is a series of exercises designed by the physician Edmund Jacobson for his tense patients. The method emphasizes the relaxation of the voluntary skeletal muscles by…

An educational philosophy emphasizing democracy and the importance of creatively meeting the unique needs of individual students and the relationship between school and community.  

A series of disciplinary actions, usually beginning with a verbal warning, progressively followed by more severe penalties.  

A person designated by an organization to serve as the official responsible for the scientific, technical, and programmatic aspects of a grant/research project.  

A statement of desired outcomes that indicates who is to achieve them, at what time, and to what degree, program; objective; behavioral objective; goal.  

The presentation of materials to be learned in carefully planned sequences, often with the aid of a computer or other technology. An interactive system of education in which information is presented in small increments. As each new fact or concept is introduced, the student is required to use what he has learned by responding to…

A form of teaching (learning) wherein material to be learned is organized into a series of small steps, called frames, and feedback is supplied after each learner response, programmed learning.  

A written document containing an out line of the content and procedures of a program.  

A system of management based on identifying the interrelationships between and among a series of actions necessary to achieve a specific goal, depicted in the form of a flow chart showing the time periods necessary to carry out each step or process in the sequence and distinguishing between those steps that are critical to goal…