Reveals how teachers can direct their students to experience history as a process through active questioning, searching for meaningful answers, and especially by tapping readily available and vivid resources in the immediate community. (NEC)

Reports the results of a survey of the practices of 78 Michigan colleges and universities in awarding and transferring credit for nontraditional or experiential learning. (WD)

Graduate students in an instructional design (ID) course were paired with middle-school student teachers to provide the ID students with an opportunity to sharpen their consulting skills while gaining personal confidence in dealing with "real" contexts in a nonthreatening situation. Eighteen references are listed. (Author/LLS)

Describes two-week summer workshops on evolution, adaptation, and behavior of whales, conducted for children by Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum (New York), and culminating in creation of life-size sand sculptures of whales. Provides selected list of periodicals, teaching materials, identification guides, records, and societies devoted to whales…

Summarizes the 10-year accomplishments of Students for Environmental Quality from Bellport High School, New York, including successful halting of local waste oil pollution, instigating state laws to prohibit seal killing and protect the Carmans River wetlands, and details current efforts to assist in passage of a state "bottle bill."…

Describes the Indiana internship program which provided experiential education in vocational special needs to 40 interns in a 10-week summer program. Presents the findings regarding perceived increased competency levels resulting from this experience. (CT)

Explains the development of teachers through three stages: first, learning how to perform as a teacher in front of a class; next, realizing both how to approach students at their own level and when to let the students do the talking; finally, teaching by revealing one's own learning. (RL)

Presents a cooperative education model that correlates the student's occupational objective with his/her training station. Components of the model discussed are (1) the task analysis, (2) the job description, (3) training plans, and (4) student evaluation. (LRA)

This is a report of an experiential approach to teaching graduate level psychology of the family. Students receive a selective bibliography of readings in family therapy covering the theoretical background, and then are required to apply those theories to their own families' psychological patterns. The course bibliography is included. (AM)

Implications from common themes underscore the need to redefine and expand the purposes of professional education and to consider experiential learning programmatically in relation to these purposes. Other implications relating to program design and to how we view and manage the process of learning are summarized. (Author/MLW)

Experiential learning holds potential for revitalization of the liberal arts, since the experiential strategy steers clear of both indoctrination and subjectivity. In the moral realm, students learn that conduct itself, and not just theory, is the ultimate concern. (MSE)

Presents examples from student logs to show how students express their thoughts in writing. Suggests that teachers combine student logs and classroom discussion as a means of gauging students' growth and awareness of subject matter. Examples are from a community service course and describe experiences in a nursing home and at a school for retarded…

This dialogue on separation by three clinicians took place in a family relations class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It emphasizes the point that psychological separation, more than physical separation, is the essence of individuation, and that for students to understand the concept of individuation they must experience as well as study…

Described the development of the Assertive Job Hunting Survey which assessed self-reported job-hunting attitudes. The survey met standards for internal consistency and stability. Students demonstrated significant increases in Assertive Job Hunting Survey scores from beginning to end of classes, which applied assertiveness to job-hunting behaviors.…

Vocational education is an educational service that belongs in the public schools. While teaching equips students with a knowledge base, vocational evaluation enables them to learn about themselves in relation to work. Vocational evaluation is an essential service for students with special needs. (JOW)