Phenomenographic analysis of observations and interviews of 18 Finnish engineers and product designers yielded six ways of learning: through doing work, through collegial interaction, through evaluation of work experiences, through taking on new tasks, through formal education, and through experiences outside work. (Contains 66 references.) (SK)

The University of Missouri-Columbia's implementation of the federal Job Location and Development program helps students find employment that will assist in funding their education as well as provide opportunities to develop job skills and self- and career awareness. (SK)

Analytic conceptual skills result when students learn to decipher the detailed facts of a given situation and then synthesize those facts into a logically compelling and recognizable meaning. The Dialectical Experiential Analytic Conceptual Development model addresses five areas of skill through eight sets of activities. (Author)

Efforts to infuse environmental messages into the school curriculum through isolated superficial activities have failed. Earth education takes a different approach through carefully crafted sequential programs for the ages 4-18--fun-filled experiential adventures that develop feelings, understandings, and harmonious lifestyles for the earth. (SV)

The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, encourages the natural curiosity of young people to explore, participate, and get involved in exhibits, demonstrations, and activities. Described are the museum's history, exhibits, programs, services, volunteers, resources, and affiliations. (JDD)

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)