Created in response to desegregation problems, the Grimes Center for Creative Education is a magnet school which emphasizes parent participation, an interdisciplinary arts curriculum, and a learning-by-doing approach. The success of Grimes illustrates how community concern over desegregation can be transformed into community support for quality…

The URTSA emcompasses group-dynamic as well as other relations training. The first two steps of relations training--"external and internal courses"--do not produce observable effects at group and organizational levels, but are necessary preliminaries. Group dynamics can be a force for positive change in the Swedish job world. (Author)

Described is an action research project in sentence combining which is helping to revise the language arts curriculum in Madison County, Georgia. It is suggested that there are benefits to classroom research projects. (KC)

The faculty's power to grant course credit assures that standards are fulfilled where credit is awarded. This power enables them to foster or to defeat an institution's policy on recognition of experiential learning as they favor or oppose its application to their respective fields of instruction. (Author/MLW)

Although past accreditors have discouraged nontraditional program developments, some leaders in the accrediting community are now pressing for a change of emphasis to educational outcomes in the evaluation of quality by institutional evaluators. A proposed policy statement on the accreditation of nontraditional education is provided. (Author/MLW)

Discusses competency-based education and its implications for lifelong learners. Describes the program at Alverno College, the Metropolitan Area Nursing Education Consortium, and the Personalized Learning and Teaching Opportunity (PLATO) program, focusing on the favorable response of adults to the self-discipline required and evidence of an…

The article briefly explains three stages of small group development and suggests ways to apply existing knowledge of group dynamics to outdoor education settings. The article explains the role of expectation, conflict, and stress in behavior change that occurs in the context of extended field excursions. (SB)

Examines the educational challenges created by complex health care delivery systems and the need to train analysts and problem solvers to work effectively within these systems. Illustrates, through a course description, how cognitive and experiential learning approaches can provide the student with a bridge between acquiring technical skills and…

Part-time courses for adults often claim the benefits of linking classroom learning to students' work experiences. Author discusses obstacles to the use of learners' experiences in the classroom and argues that attitude changes in learners and lecturers need to occur before full benefits of part-time study can be reaped. (Author/CSS)

Student organization cocurricular activities may be integrated into office procedures classes to help students attain competency and employability. The article notes how organization activities, such as records management, travel arrangements, time management, and taking minutes of meetings, are related to school and job activities. (MF)

Describes a San Francisco, California, science museum whose design is based on the exploration of perception. The museum is arranged in sections on patterns, light color, eye logic, third dimension, sound, hearing, electricity, and the tactile gallery. Programs include teacher training, student learning experience, field trips and study projects,…

Although cooperative education may be uniquely American, other nations place great importance on relating work and education. Types of programs, calendars and schedules are reviewed, and global patterns are described. (Author/LBH)

A survey of 148 library and information science (LIS) educators determined that electronic information resources in LIS curricula have been integrated into basic and advanced reference courses: Internet resources were covered by 81% and Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) online union catalog by 53%. Lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice…

Capability is an expert system designed to support the process of compiling portfolios for competence-based assessment, particularly accreditation of prior leaning. The system was designed to provide cost effective management, consistency of rigor, support for tutors in accreditation workshops, and a structured approach to counseling. Outlines…

An observational study investigated which teaching opportunities within a role play activity could be considered valuable for the improvement of mathematical thinking. Observations indicated many such opportunities, suggesting that if teachers manage to make use of such teaching opportunities, children can explicitly reflect on the relationship…