The author stresses the importance for counselors to articulate a viable and comprehensive approach to vocational counseling to both clients and the larger society. A re-thinking and re-stating of career education concepts can be a first step in applying vocational theory more constructively. (EA)

Attempts to evaluate the pragmatist's assertion concerning truth by evaluating the pragmatist's interpretation of the nature of consciousness, experience, and the truth-essence. (Author/RK)

A teaching intervention study was conducted with sixth grade students to explore the interconnections between students' growing understanding of arithmetic expressions and beginning algebra. Three groups of students were chosen, with two groups receiving instruction in arithmetic and algebra, and one group in algebra without arithmetic. Students…

The article focuses on a specific method of constructing the concept of function. The core of this method is a didactic model that plays two roles together--on the one hand a role of a model of the concept of function and on the other hand a role of a model of physical phenomena that functions can represent. This synergy of modeling situations and…

This paper describes a design research study with ten second-grade students who are part of the Measure Up (MU) research and development project underway at the University of Hawai'i. Students were asked how they counted in multiple bases, specifically how they knew when to go to a new place value and why it was necessary to do so. All ten…

Drawing on data from 120 interviews with secondary schools students of mathematics aged from 14 to 18 in England and the United States, this paper argues that young people's developing identities are an important and neglected factor in success at secondary school mathematics. Students in both countries believe mathematics to be rigid and…

We compared alternative instructional strategies for integrating knowledge of decimal place value and regrouping concepts with procedures for adding and subtracting decimals. The first condition was based on recent research suggesting that conceptual and procedural knowledge develop in an iterative, hand over hand fashion. In this iterative…

Even though we live in an age of advancing technology and changing structure of science, especially in genetics engineering, there appears to be a great lack of understanding of these basic concepts by society in general. Society carries responsibilities to both living and non-living things; this lack of understanding may result in combined…

This paper describes a set of studies carried out as part of a larger project on the development of children's concepts of matter and its changes. In this paper, the impact of visibility and familiarity of the process of dissolving on children's concepts is analyzed. Two different studies with kindergarten and third grade students were carried…

Evidence has mounted that science knowledge can be promoted by collaborative group work. Frequently, the benefits stem from the appropriation of insights that are collectively developed. However, benefits have also been observed that are independent of collective insights, and that sometime occurs in their absence. This presentation reports a…

This paper introduces issues related to the role of intuitive knowledge in physics learning. Phenomenological primitives, which form the base level for intuitive explanations in the research, are discussed. Three primary questions are the focus of this paper: (1) What role, if any, does intuitive knowledge play in physics problem solving? (2) How…

Viewing the school as an organization and the community as based upon personal relations and connections, the relationship between the two is considered as part of a social network. The author considers influential networks, boundary perceptions and manipulations, and which school structures are likely to survive in that context. (AG)

Discusses the positive aspects of verbalizing ideas in order to provide a frame of reference which serves to clarify the concept. (Author/HV)

The present research was undertaken in the attempt to gain knowledge about the nature of qualitative changes in vocabulary performance across the major portion of the life span. (Author)