Elementary notions to (1) clarify meaning of "set , (2) suggest why the notion of set is an important one, and (3) give some hints as to how a teacher might use the word in the classroom. (RP)

Five-year-old children were less successful in forming concepts of similarity of leaves and in communicating leaf shape to other students than older children. A preformed concept of leaf shape facilitates communication. (AL)

Author describes her experience with first graders who had already been labeled as failures in kindergarten, and her employment of the experience approach to learning, which is a good way to build from where each child is and to provide success-oriented activities for everyone. (Author/DR)

Brain research indicates that sensory-motor experiences during childrens' preschool and early school years may be the foundation for later language development. (MLF)

A mature understanding of the natural world requires experiential learning. Significant experience provides a constant source of values and understanding. Experiential learning is a holistic process, where conceptual, linguistic and perceptual elements are blended with direct impressions of the environment. Experiential knowing is not fixed but is…

Education should aim at developing a kind of person who knows how to live well. School instruction fails to accomplish this. Customarily, learning is acquired through example and emulation, rather than through teaching of rules and precepts. Implications for teaching science, mathematics, history, and religion are discussed. (PP)

Reviews research on the effects of Montessori schooling on children. Results are presented in six sections: (1) general verbal intelligence; (2) perceptual, motor, and performance IQ development; (3) academic achievement and school readiness; (4) attention, concentration, resistance to distraction, and impulsiveness; (5) Piagetian conceptual…

Examines how old age invites consummatory assessments of the major stages, relationships, and events of the past. Suggests neglect of consummation in life-satisfaction indexes can lead to bias in testing theories of aging. Proposes that human fulfillment is related to achieving favorable consummations in old age. (Author/RC)

Describes a study which determined the prevalence of the non-Newtonian view among students (N=125) and to what extent their physics teachers (N=5) were aware of this prevalence. Includes methods used and summaries of typical responses to a paper-pencil, multiple-choice format questionnaire focusing on aspects related to force. (JN)

Two experiments were designed to investigate among kindergarten through third-grade children the development of character constancy -- the belief that other's or self's personality characteristics are stable across time and do not change despite changes in appearance. It is proposed that character constancy of self and other is a product of both…

Examines the relationship of moral education and community of commitment (agreements of concept, judgment, practice) on which programs of moral education depend. Examines alternative schooling as a means of moral education. (Author/LC)

A multidisciplinary team research project to document the relationship between environmental and cultural features of Papua New Guinea, cognitive development, and mathematics learning is described. (MP)

Non-quantifiable knowledge, involving sensory information, conceptualization, and imagination, is discussed in relation to educational evalution. Evaluation is discussed in terms of educational connoisseurship, or the art of appreciation; and educational criticism, which informs, interprets, and appraises. (MH)

Describes a simulation game about the third world which can be valuable to slow learners because it enables them to acquire abstract concepts using a concrete method (induction). For journal availability, see SO 507 289. (Author/CK)