Describing activities of secondary students who participate in a 5 1/2 day trip on the sailing training vessel, Svanen, this article illustrates outdoor education aboard a 96-foot, 3-masted schooner built in 1916 and currently used by the Oslo American School (a U.S. Dependent School) for field experiences. (JC)

Experiential, or experience-based, learning programs can range from subjecting the products of student learning to judgment by adults to placing students in the community where standards are set by adults, students learn to negotiate on their own, and individual experiences are followed by reflection and debriefing. A number of benefits in the…

Describes a program established by the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) in which high school journalists spend a day on the job with organization members. (AEA)

Describes a residential homemaking program as one of the ways to make vocational homemaking significnat for both present and future needs of students through educational opportunities in a nonschool environment. (TA)

Condon, a community of approximately 950 people in central Oregon, opened its high school to 15 undergraduate secondary education students from the University of Oregon and provided them with perhaps the richest experience of their preprofessional training. (Author/BR)

Northwestern University's Archeological Program has developed a wide range of educational programs which feature direct student (junior high through Ph.D. candidates and out of school adults) involvement in the field. (JC)

Outlines three different models of formal experiential education: instruction group process, simulation and games, and field experience. Describes the development of the Field Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley and examines the process by which all three traditions were effectively integrated into the program. (SB)

The Exploratory Field Experience in Education program is a field-based program for those students who indicate that they wish to pursue a professional career in education. The aim of the program is to assist the student in making an intelligent career choice early in his college years. The program is set for the first semester of the sophomore…

This document describes the Performance Based Undergraduate Program for the education of teachers at Brooklyn College--a program which encompasses the performance-based field-centered approach and the identification and analysis of teaching behaviors. Evaluation and feedback techniques are described as necessary parts of the curriculum for each of…

Describes an Arkansas articulation model in business and office education which attempts to bridge the gap between the traditional experience-based system and the performance-based system by incorporating the strengths of each system. The model includes eight elements and covers the four cluster areas of accounting, office practice, shorthand, and…

Described is an extracurricular program for high school students in which they visited a college physics laboratory facility and participated in laboratory activities. Discussed are the planning, student experiences, and results. (CW)

A high-school-level field experience program in economic education in Meridian, Mississippi, is described. The program provided exposure to various careers as well as experience with economic processes. Each student spent several weeks in a variety of business, industrial, and manufacturing organizations. Students learned the background of each…

A field experience environmental program involving urban high school students in farm, city, wilderness, and independent study situations is described. Concludes that experiential programs are beneficial to students, but that they place strain on public school organization, demand inordinate commitment from faculty and are expensive to administer.…

Describes the Minority Research Apprentice Program which has placed 200 minority science students in summer apprenticeships in the biomedical research laboratories of some of America's top scientists. (LRA)

This article describes the Executive High School Internship Program which is an educational developmental experience that permits the qualified high school student to enter, on a full-time basis, the top-management level of the world of work in a real rather than a theoretical way. (Author)