The adequacy of preventive education modalities in drug and alcohol education programs is questioned. Dilemmas facing students and teachers are discussed with the conclusion that communication must be accomplished within a common frame of reference for both the educator and student recipient. (BL)

Innovation will flourish within a school environment that provides opportunities for teachers to plan, evaluate, and change through a cooperative and democratic process. (Author)

Author describes attempts to encourage students to ask questions in class, in the belief that the more generally accepted Socratic Method, in which the teacher asks the questions, is less effective. (JB)

If human dimensions can be reintroduced into classroom learning as a primary educational function, the learner will become personally involved and his continuing learning will affect a change in his behavior. (IR)

Young teaching candidates are prepared in a subject field but totally uncommitted to basic teaching because so little attention is given to providing adequate teacher education. (IR)

Discussions concluded that now is the time to develop criteria for measuring professional quality of practicing physicians and to improve learning processes in medical schools. (Editor/IR)

Maintains that English education must place more emphasis upon learning processes and the uses of knowledge. (SW)

Writing teachers can enable students to think critically by teaching composition courses according to two principles: sequencing and revision. The teaching of a basic reading and writing course for college freshmen illustrates how writing, taught from a discovery perspective and in conjunction with selected readings, can develop students' ability…

Discusses the use of the term "communicative" in describing approaches to foreign- or second-language teaching. Suggests that a distinction should be drawn between informal communicative approaches which promote second-language acquisition and formal communicative approaches which promote conscious learning. Examines conditions for achieving both…