Explains the difference between children's sensible reasoning and Piagetian conceptions of concrete reasoning. Children will modify their experiments to accommodate their beliefs long before they will change their beliefs to fit the evidence. Teachers should stress relevance, prediction, and consistency when resolving discrepancies between beliefs…

Contains five personal accounts: "Answering the Cry of Disadvantaged Students" (Cheryl Bellamy); "A Change of Direction: From Researcher to Counselor in Nigeria" (Delores Mack); "Suicidal Encounters--Suicidal Experience" (Ralph Rickgarn); "Rescuing the Rescuers: First Responders at Risk" (Hal Snyder); and "Birth is Not Necessarily Painful: A…

Contains five personal accounts of counselor overinvolvement: (1) "The First Step" (Mary Dougherty-Hunt); (2) "From Chaos to Organization" (Laura Hill); (3) "Whose Problem Is It?" (Max Hines); (4) "Helping Can Hurt" (Derek Paar); and (5) "The Heroic Syndrome" (Gerald Stone). (NB)

Contains six personal accounts: "The PANACEA Prescription" (Hannah Amgott); "Grief as a Process: What Helps, What Hurts, What Heals" (Mary DePauw and James Luther); "Involuntary Isolation: A Counselor's Dilemma" (Samuel Gladding); "Grieving and Growing" (Stephanie Pollack); "From Both Sides Now: When…

Tested validity of a model of the experiential learning process, based on personal construct theory using college student subjects (N=22). Unpredicted results seemed to indicate that subjects who felt accepted became more open in their experience and perhaps more propositional in the way in which they construed others. (Author/ABL)

The author discusses the nature of experience and comments on the value of experience to the learner. He relates this information to the use of experience in teaching, especially in the area of agricultural education. (CH)

Describes the process designed to enable adults studying part time to claim credit toward a degree for learning undertaken in the workplace. Shows how the criteria used to assess portfolios of evidence were negotiated with students. (SK)

Describes a student initiated stewardship project that resulted in the transformation of a sewage lagoon near the school into a place to study nature. Contains a list of 20 things that discourage a successful stewardship project. (LZ)

When assessment of prior learning is used to teach self-reflection, it encourages developmental growth. Techniques that support development include goals statements, autobiographies, and experiential learning essays. (SK)

A detailed comparison of the National Association of Secondary School Principals "An Agenda for Excellence at the Middle Level" and literature on content-based foreign language instruction reveals significant similarities in the curricular and instructional goals endorsed for middle level learners. (34 references) (JL)

Tells the story of a Hawaiian man who learned to navigate without instruments like the ancient Polynesian wayfinders, explaining how he acquired navigational skills from mentors and books, discussing his views on education, and describing a trip he took in a double-hulled canoe designed according to ancient Polynesian petroglyphs. (SM)

As part of two outdoor workshops (n=37 and 38) for Master of Business Administration students focused on team building, teams completed case studies. A control group completed case studies without the outdoor component. Results clearly indicated that outdoor education can accelerate team development and the evaluation method proved useful. (SK)

Describes a Wyoming junior high school teacher's expansion of a library research assignment to an Eagle Writing Project stressing practical skills applications, including critical thinking, listening, note taking, reviewing, respecting different opinions, communicating with government officials, writing as a practical tool, and respecting the…

Before instruction, 192 nursing students completed Kolb's Learning Style Inventory; 53.7% were concrete learners, 46.3% reflective. No significant associations appeared between learning style and age, sex, prior employment, or educational attainment. Methodological problems were found with using this instrument in nursing education. (SK)

Students in mental health nursing participated in researching, writing, acting in, and evaluating a play about schizophrenia. The experience demonstrated drama's effectiveness as a tool to develop sensitivity about health care concerns. (SK)