The Killarney Experiential Education Project was established in 1997 to provide residential outdoor learning experiences to the 184,000 students north of Parry Sound, Ontario. Operated by the town of Killarney in cooperation with the Catholic District School Board and Killarney Provincial Park, the center will set up the infrastructure to provide…

Reports on 128 subjects interviewed about their recollections of school field trips during their early years of school. Ninety-six percent could recall school field trips, with the majority recalling when they went, with whom they went, where they went, and three or more specific aspects of what they did. The study reinforces interrelationships…

Explains Edward De Bono's six thinking hats, different perspectives on a problem. Shows how to apply the technique to case studies in management classes. (SK)

The Food Project brings together Boston-area youth to grow and distribute food for the hungry and in the process, develop leadership and job skills. Summer crew workers (high school students) grow vegetables, distribute them to food pantries, and sell them at farmer's markets. Crew leaders learn more about sustainable agriculture and hone…

Students and teachers in Pierce School District in Arbuckle, California, re-enacted an 1840s wagon train. Staff and students dressed authentically, turning thrift-store outfits into period garb. The 4-day simulation instilled knowledge in students and helped them think more critically. True instructional innovation comes from the bottom up. (MLH)

Describes a quality management role playing technique designed for use by a virtual or networked organization as a cost-effective tool for staff training. (Contains 21 references.) (SK)

Presents a simple experiment that allows students to determine a slope from a series of measurements rather than from a given equation in which students measure heights and widths for a set of paper rectangles, all with the same width. Students calculate areas and plot area versus height from the data. (Author/ASK)

Describes a house-buying active learning project designed to motivate students in lower level college mathematics courses. Discusses the mathematical content, implementation, evaluation, and benefits of the project. (Author/ASK)

Presents a model describing one approach for extending seemingly limited hands-on activities into full-inquiry science lessons. Presents the model as a tool for facilitating science teachers' efforts to understand and implement powerful, effective, and manageable inquiry-based science instruction. (Contains 34 references.) (Author/ASK)

Defines reflective practice and illustrates why reflection is fundamental to learning and how it can be brought out in the company of trusted others through dialogue. Illuminates the relationships between public reflection and the common good, experience, and time as well as characterizing the skills associated with reflective practice. (Contains…

Reflects on the definition of experiential education as formulated by the Association for Experiential Education, and on past and future themes of the Journal of Experiential Education. Cites the proliferation of education programs focusing on environmental and ecological concepts. Discusses the need for continuing research in experiential…

Conditions conducive to mindfulness (being fully present and engaged in life as it is actually happening) enhance experiential learning and may be compared to Buddhist traditions of meditation. Among 164 Utah college students who participated in educational outdoor experiences, meditative techniques, such as mindfulness, reduced boredom by…

Among the many ideas and theories in anatomy and physiology, one particular topic provides all the potential benefits of learning about the human body: the circulatory system, specifically the heart. Describes a distinctive way to study circulation and the heart that allows students to explore the basic principles of vertebrate anatomy and…

Examined the learning styles of undergraduate athletic trainers to determine their consistency in traditional classroom versus clinical settings. Students completed the Learning Styles Inventory twice, once focusing on learning new information in the classroom and once focusing on learning in the clinical setting. Learning styles shifted depending…

Because individual, societal, and work-related interests are interrelated, greater connections between meanings constructed from work and nonwork experiences are needed. A reconciling framework gives centrality to generative and productive activity of vocational, which includes being, living, and working with others. (SK)