As part of a project in working class history, ninth grade students conduct a bean bake for 1500 people. They cook pork-and-beans in huge black pots fueled day and night by two cords of wood and bake 1500 rolls of bread. An old-fashioned hoedown follows the feed. (KC)

Citizenship experiences are not reserved exclusively for community political institutions. The social studies curriculum provides an opportunity to capitalize on the development of citizenship competencies by using actual experiences. (CJ)

The author lists the reasons for assigning homework in secondary classes and analyzes the reasons students give for avoiding it. This article is reprinted from the Council for Basic Education, Vol. 23, No. 1, September, 1978. (SJL)

Reports that an approach in which college students enacted skits developed around vocabulary words proved more effective than a traditional approach to teaching vocabulary. (MKM)

Discusses approaches to management education and development, stating that organizational improvement is facilitated by working with managers rather than by teaching them in the traditional sense. The manager can develop only through his own experience and through the organizational processes of which he is a part. (MF)

Describes benefits of museum field trips to elementary school children. Suggests that the experience is especially beneficial to students with learning disabilities and physical or emotional handicaps. (KC)

Provides lesson plans, including materials, aims, and behavioral objectives, designed to make music part of the preschool curriculum. (Author/DB)

To be an effective outdoor education teacher one must: (1) be prepared; (2) teach only what has been experienced; (3) have his own style; and (4) explain skill, demonstrate it, and have the students perform the skill. (CM)

Uses the Outward Bound School in Colorado as a metaphor for a school that emphasizes putting practice into theory, which suggests a willingness to improvise on the part of teachers and students who are fully capable of figuring out for themselves the individual and social imperatives of education. (Author/IRT)

Describes a course on teaching and learning resources which relied solely upon students borrowing instructional materials from outside organizations, and was designed to provide students with an exposure to a wide variety of instructional media and with skills in the selection and evaluation of instructional materials. (CMV)

The author defines field service programs (or experiential programs) and suggests that this type of program is necessary for today's information-rich, experience-poor student. He describes the field service program at Coker College (South Carolina) which has three types of sponsored internships. (KC)

Indicates that a journalism program must meet students' needs to acquire confidence through the acquisition of practical skills while allowing them to stretch their ideas beyond what experience can reasonably support. Presents illustrations that show some problems and challenges involved in students' efforts to report on significant, controversial…

Describes a program at Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City, Kansas, in which high school seniors work twice each week as community volunteers. (IRT)

Attacks the theory that there is a hierarchy of language skills wherein the learner starts with the simplest elements and builds to the complex. (DD)