Through narrative pedagogy, nursing students, teachers, and clinicians share and interpret their teaching and learning experiences. Analysis by seven teachers and students identified how the approach decenters skill acquisition and content, enables them to attend to thinking practices, and raises issues of power, ideology, and the social…

Discusses some of the current and future challenges in environmental education in the United States and makes suggestions for how these challenges can best be addressed. (Contains 29 references.) (Author/YDS)

Makes the case for the kitchen as a natural source of science exploration. Shares tried and tested activities and offers teaching suggestions such as the use of journals. Relates activities to the National Science Education Standards. (MM)

Findings of a study of 10 graduate student sin an online course conducted via computer conferencing included (1) the need to familiarize participants with software and ensure access; (2) differences in online and face-to-face communication and participation; and (3) the need for careful structuring and attention to detail in online courses.…

Results of the Canfield Learning Styles Inventory, completed by 212 secondary business students, showed that most preferred direct experience--hands-on learning. Least preferred was reading, including textbook assignments. Nearly half (98) clustered around applied and independent learning preferences. (SK)

Richard Rorty, in his "Consequences of Pragmatism" (1982), acknowledging the pragmatic direction taken by both modern and postmodern philosophy, declared that "James and Dewey were not only waiting at the end of the dialectical road which analytic philosophy traveled, but are waiting at the end of the road which, for example, Foucault and Deleuze…

Rarely do outdoor educators get the opportunity to safely incorporate an avalanche while the topic of the day is actually avalanche awareness and forecasting. Many similar possibilities exist in the expeditionary context, but even brief excursions may result in incredible learning experiences. These "teachable moments" occur regularly in the…

Online three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds are emerging technologies that offer unique learning opportunities for traditional and distributed education. One of the more popular 3D virtual worlds, Active Worlds, is currently being used as a medium for synchronous and asynchronous distance learning. This investigation presents two exploratory case…

The purpose of this article is to examine the use of process notes as a group counseling technique. The use of process notes during a group counseling experience for graduate students in a Master's degree program is described, and suggestions for incorporating the technique into practitioner training programs are discussed.

The authors of this paper discuss the researchers' concern raised at the close of the Second Annual Symposium on Experiential Education Research regarding research needs in experiential education. Among the topics developed through the discussion include: (a) the need for access to, and adaptation of, research from fields other than experiential…

Experiential education is defined by Luckman (1996) as a "process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill and value from direct experience" (p. 7). Such a process of practical engagement, with concepts and skills in selected and guided experiences, supported by reflection, critical analysis and synthesis, is applicable to any…

Currently, considerable difference exists between learning experiences for school administrators at the pre-service and in-service stages in their careers. Individuals aspiring to formal school leadership roles participate in learning experiences that are part of university-based administrator preparation programs. Those already serving in…

Children form their own ideas, which become their beliefs based on their experiences. The misconceptions prevailing within children are stated with the measures to guide them to examine their ideas.

An attempt was made to state the problems and find solutions as to how practical laboratory experience can contribute to meaningful learning. It is observed that laboratory experience is one of the most important requirements for connecting students' appreciation of chemistry with the world in which they reside.

In response to those whose evaluations of a BELMAS conference suggest a more active role for conference participants, Rene Saran and the author, as trustees of the Society for the Furtherance of the Critical Philosophy (SFCP), discussed with Harry Tomlinson the possibility of offering an introductory form of Socratic Dialogue at the 2003…