Reflection requires time. In one class, students were asked to engage in a process of written reflection about the writing they had done immediately after they prepared their papers, as they sat in class preparing to hand in those papers. Reflective writing, which Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff call "process writing," appears throughout…

This paper presents and discusses the responses of a class of first-grade students and a class of fourth-grade students to the elements of psychological maltreatment in the fairy tales "Cinderella" and "The Twelve Months." Responses of the first-grade students indicate that both boys and girls felt that the fairy tale heroine let herself be…

This paper contends that students who are learning to use computers can benefit from having an overview of the history and social context of computers. The paper highlights some milestones in the history of computers, from ancient times to ENIAC to Altair to Bill Gates to the Internet. It also suggests some things for students to think about and…

Junior high school students from one school were asked to list the things they liked and disliked about school in order to develop an instrument for assessing the attitudes of junior high school students in a different school. (HMD)

Article suggested four characteristics which are vital to the maturation process of the artist and discussed the real meaning of talent. (Author/RK)

The teaching procedures and class activities used in a consumer education course at John Marshall High School, Los Angeles, California, are briefly discussed. Both teacher and students responded enthusiastically to the course. (Author/RM)

Since one of the teacher's primary aims is to build a student's confidence in his own ability, teaching poems which are lyric and readily accessible is a good way to begin a poetry unit. (Author/RB)

Author discusses common sense, reasoning processes, and the scheduling of examinations and their predictability. (RK)

A survey of student opinion at the State University of New York at Buffalo showed that the students did not think that it was especially important for a university to prepare students for family responsibilities and relationships, to transmit society's current values and institutions, or to be a sanctuary. (Author/GB)

College students were administered the Philosophies of Human Nature Scale and a revision of that scale to measure their perceptions of general human nature and student human nature. Differences were found that supported the experimental hypothesis that students perceive student human nature more positively than human nature in general. (Author)

An English class responses to the poem The Last Echo'' by Walter Lowenfalls. (PG)

This study was conducted in an effort to determine what basic kinds of fears beset the freshman student who has chosen to major in education, and how effectively four years of teacher preparation alleviate these fears. (Author)

Reports the successful transfer of the Brigham Young University Daily Universe'' from student control to control by the department of jouranlism where it is also used in journalism instruction. (RB)

Outlines some of the personal obstacles to change and tells how to overcome them.'' (Editor)

A K-12 program in Florida links academic subjects and the world of work in a practical demonstration of career education'' in action. (Editor)