Experimental courses offer a good opportunity to work with competences, promoting the incorporation of strategies oriented towards motivating students to actively involve in the learning process, promoting reflexive learning and developing generic skills. This study presents different ways of developing and evaluating some important general…

The PARSEL project was initiated to disseminate teaching modules, based on a philosophical model, which was in line with a need to promote scientific literacy, in a manner considered to be both popular and relevant for students. The project was based on the belief that this approach would allow students to better realize that science was for all,…

Heliotrope, Orpheus, and Communiversity, San Francisco's three free universities, offer curricula with combinations of alchemy, magic, Volkswagen repairs, options in education, dance, conversational Mandarin, basic plumbing, and brain wave experiences. (Author/PG)

Some 3,000 students from varied backgrounds are now enrolled, under the auspices of 20 colleges and universities, in programs that constitute a distinct alternative to usual college offerings for undergraduates. These programs are called Universities Without Walls (UWW). The structure of each unit of the UWW has been devised by a team of students,…

The focus of this book--an appeal for a reevaluation of the literature teacher's pedagogical goals and methods--is twofold: first, the reasons for the enjoyment of reading literature and suggestions for stimulating in students a love of plays, poetry, and novels; and second, new roles for the teacher. Chapter 1 outlines some of the problems facing…

Common College serves the San Francisco bay area with an enrollment of excollege students and housewives. This experimental school makes connections between students' interests and opportunities by arranging classes, tutorials, and apprenticeships. It stresses work, travel, and time alone. (Author/PG)

Describes the Career Motivation Process (CMP) program, an experimental approach to career counseling incorporating both the "personality" approach, which centers around personal self-examination, and the "decision-making" approach, which emphasizes the collection of information about possible career options. (JG)

This article outlines a study conducted in Finland and Portugal into the reasons why International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) students choose particular Experimental Science (Group 4) subjects. Its findings suggest that interest, enjoyment, university course and career requirements have most influence on students' choices.…

Describes courses developed on the reality world" of the student, focusing on student experience instead of the traditional subject matter. (IR)

The purpose of the tests and services to become available from this program is to provide three types of information for use, by both junior colleges and entering students, as a basis for realistic decision making. Descriptions of (1) a student's educational and vocational interests, (2) his special abilities, particularly in relation to the…

A 9-week experimental course for 10th-grade students used popular song lyrics, related literature, and explicative material as a means of interesting teenagers in literature and bridging the gap between the adolescent's subcultural world and the teacher of literature. Two classes received one complete lesson per week of song lyrics and related…

An activity Preference Questionnaire was administered to both a group taking an experimental program in education and a group taking the regular program to measure the frequency and variety of field experience in which the students engaged. Results and correlations of results were plotted to highlight the students' interests. The result indicated…

Experimental programs to be initiated in 12 model districts will attempt, through the humanities and arts, to help elementary and high school students relate to the world with a new sense of excitement, concern, and reverence. Model projects will utilize team teaching, interdisciplinary and multimedia techniques, and independent study programs.…

"De-schooling" involves changing the present educational system from one which values only the marketable commodity called "EDUCATION" to one which emphasizes the individual choice of the learner and the process of learning. This book presents statements from those who conceived the idea of de-schooling, as well as from…