This digest explores the literature related to journal writing from various disciplines, including psychology, language studies, outdoor education, and experiential education. Although journal writing has been around since ancient times, it was not until the early 1960s that it flourished as a learning tool. Instructors from a wide range of…

This book, based on the conclusions of a study of practices in college student affairs, presents nine papers which identify the best practices in student affairs, review research used to define the best practices, and give examples of how to use these practices in the field. The book is based on a 1996 meeting of an interdisciplinary study group…

This set of three continuing education units is designed to be used as a professional development tool for school nurses. Each unit consists of several sections designed to stand alone. Thus, the total set can be used and taught in a straightforward sequence, or one or more units and sections can be combined into a personalized course. Each…

This document consists of the four quarterly issues of the journal "Understanding Our gifted" published during 1998. Each issue of the journal generally has a single theme in the education of gifted and talented children around which all the articles are focused. The themes of these four issues are, respectively, "Educational…

This research project, called Charger Connection, was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a pilot transition program for incoming high school freshmen at Elkhart Memorial High School (Indiana). The Charger Connection class was developed to help students overcome problems associated with the transition from middle school to high school.…

These Colorado state music content standards are based on the idea that music education benefits students by developing them fully and gradually building music literacy while cultivating intuition, reasoning, imagination, and dexterity into unique forms of expression and communication. The guide suggests that standards provide a substantive…

With the increase in violence over the past few decades, academic and human development practitioners have tried to better understand the dynamics of conflict and develop effective intervention and prevention strategies. There is an ever-deepening appreciation for the mediation process. The mediation process is a powerful problem-solving and…

Article addresses itself to the situation of the classroom teacher, his role in guiding students to learn, and the standards by which he is judged. (RK)

Advocating a psychoecological perspective within a student development model, the authors state that a counselor must intimately know the system in which he deals, must observe and gather data, must formulate and test hypotheses and must help develop an action plan. (LA)

Article offers a guide to developing an inexpensive musique concrete electronic studio and a short, chronological discography of representative compositions. (Author/RK)

Development education offers a new approach to teaching about developing nations by cultivating students' abilities to become active, thinking members of society. (JB)

Article describes an English curriculum to help each student choose English courses that are best suited to the student's needs and abilities. (Author/ML)

The author contends that there is a "silent communication between student and teacher. A questionnaire directed toward this idea is included. (AP)