Multilevel visual models can make teaching and learning theories more easily understood. The idea of graphic visualizationas developed in this model utilizes three stages of abstract concept formation dealing with concrete visualization, abstract visualization, and abstract generalization, which would provide the learner with an intuitive grasp of…

Author reviewed two books: Schools of Hellas by Kenneth John Freeman and The Educational Theories of the Sophists by James L. Jarrett. (RK)

The present discussion centered on the role of core courses and also provided an opportunity to reexamine two basic questions facing each individual: What is life? How may I participate in this life more fully and more completely? (Author/RK)

Author's purpose in this article was to mark the distinctive nature of a Catholic approach to concepts in the war/peace field. (Author/RK)

Planning interdisciplinary education requires attention to the steps by which a student can learn to look at a problem in a more complex fashion, to coordinate perspectives and to synthesize these into a more integrated understanding. (Author)

Describes a study designed to determine the level of sophistication at which 4th graders would learn concepts of economics when a fable-simulation instructional method was used. Also ethnic and sex differences in learning economic concepts were investigated. (DP)

Reports a study of difficulties encountered by 14.5- to 15.0- year-old children in learning the mole concept with a programed instruction. Concludes that three respective disturbing factors were embedded in manipulation of molarity of solutions, balancing equations, and misapprehension that one mole of a compound always reacts with one mole of…

The purpose of this paper is to describe important concepts for analyzing communication processes in organizations, and to point out some of the methodological developments related to these concepts. (Author)

Author raises crucial political issues for anyone involved in education, not the least for those working with the sociological perspectives they comment on. (Author/RK)

Author suggests that variations in the functioning of imagination result in variations in mental aptitudes and expressions and expressions, and these variations serve as a guide, according to which the scope of an individual mind may be recognized. (Author/RK)

This paper has been arguing for an education which develops in children the capacity to work out their own authentic response to the many conflicting socialization pressures. (Author)

Article explores the idea that exposure to fictional characters on the motion picture screen or on television causes the viewer, expecially young people, to identify with one or more of the characters involved. Suggestions for improvements in research into mass communications are offered. (Author/RK)

Author analyses what effect commercial television has on it's viewers, how it shapes consciousness, and whether it extends consciousness. (HB)

Considers the philosophy underlying learning and needs in adult education. (RK)