Relates nature of experiential education to spiritual life. Explains prevailing themes of dependency and faith in western spiritual tradition. Notes that because spiritual faith is openness to reality, lack of faith cuts one off from experience. Explains how experiential education programs such as Tough Love offer success with dependency. (SB)

Introduces Tent Troup, a chautauqua-like traveling theatre featuring teenage performers. (Author/RH)

A high school junior reports his experience with Tent Troupe, a chautauqua-like traveling theatre featuring teenage performers. (Author/RH)

Describes a living history program at the Old Town State Park in San Diego, California for elementary children. Program activities and the roles of volunteers and teachers are discussed. (AM)

Discusses the need for would-be writers to undertake on-the-scene research to become thoroughly familiar with a writing topic. Relates some of the author's experiences gained through such "field" work. (HTH)

Identifies and reviews the evidence for some potential functions of proximity seeking in infancy. Data pertaining to a variety of species are reviewed. (Author/SS)

Preparing students to function effectively in our multiethnic society must include ethnic literacy. (Author/MLF)

Presents a variety of examples showing the practicability of experiential learning in technical writing courses. (RL)

Describes an exercise designed to demonstrate the effects of personality on problem formation and problem solving. Participants are provided a supportive environment in which to discover for themselves their personality/problem solving style and compare it with that of others. (LLS)

An interpretivist qualitative study used the life-history method to analyze foundations of experiential learning in agricultural education. Four tenets--learning through real-life contents (Dewey), learning by doing (Knapp), learning through projects (Stimson), and learning through solving problems (Lancelot)--were conceptually aligned with the…

Learning-in-action must be accompanied by reflection in and on action. Journals are a personal, self-consciously interactive method of communicating reflection to oneself and others, although they manifest a tension between the public and private aspects of learning-in-action. (SK)

Examination of self-education and feedback systems suggests that self-education, experience, and the science of education are closely related and of great antiquity. (SK)

Learning keys in human experience are (1) controlling the environment; (2) interacting with, understanding, and adapting one's relationship to the environment; and (3) liberating oneself from the environment. A learning-centered schooling model balances control, adaptive, and personal criteria. (SK)

Develops a model of mathematical learning from an exploration of educational research and personal observations. Uses Kolb's model of experiential learning to characterize four mathematical learning styles: (1) allegorizers; (2) integrators; (3) analyzers; and (4) synthesizers. These styles are viewed as corresponding to four stages of…

Raises 10 issues concerning initiation, development, and implementation of realistic job previews (RJPs), framing issues as tough choices that must be made. Makes recommendations for each of 10 choices on basis of previous RJP research, relevant theory, and personal experience. (Author/NB)