Analysis of 141 nursing students' diaries and focus group interviews about their work with an ambulance service revealed the following: holistic nursing played a role; they developed appreciation for paramedics' skills; and experiential learning helped them understand the complete care process from the emergency call to patient discharge. (SK)

Describes framing adventure activities to focus on positive scenarios that reinforce Jewish Chassidim spiritual values of individual participation and purpose, responsible decision making, learning from the mistakes of others, working together, sharing group responsibility, group trust, responsibility for others, and accepting challenges as…

A four-phase reflective cycle can help teachers better attend to student learning: (1) presence in experience; (2) description of experience; (3) analysis of experience from multiple perspectives; and (4) experimentation (taking action). Teachers should also solicit structured student feedback to distinguish between what they think they are…

Introduces the AmeriCorps/Campus Corps program which is designed to integrate service learning into Maryland community colleges. Uses a model that can be replicated on a local level with all of the outside classroom legwork associated with service learning provided by the members of AmeriCorps. Describes the struggles regarding faculty recruitment…

A group of 10 women developing peer education services participated in collaborative inquiry in order to remove barriers to peer counseling. The following themes emerged: (1) adding experiential knowledge to textbook knowledge; (2) crossing cultures using difference as a creative resource; and (3) using public discourse to transfer knowledge to…

Conceptualizes learning within experiential and constructivist perspectives as a complex interplay of orientation, elaboration, and integration. Illustrates the model with the case of a training program aimed at organizational change. Identifies tensions between the three components and the trainer's role. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

In this classroom activity, students perform a series of tests with deicers to decide which works better at melting ice and then decide if calcium chloride deicer is worth the extra cost. (MM)

Investigates fishing and aquatic stewardship outcomes associated with different levels of program exposure among n=619 participants in a national fishing education program (Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs) designed for youth in Grades 6-8. Supports the assumption that such programs are more likely to influence antecedents to environmentally…

Traces the origins of experiential learning in the work of Erasmus, Rousseau, and Dewey. Points out problems in Dewey's theory of experience. Explains four learning strategies that define experiential learning as meaningful learning. (SK)

Through narrative pedagogy, nursing students, teachers, and clinicians share and interpret their teaching and learning experiences. Analysis by seven teachers and students identified how the approach decenters skill acquisition and content, enables them to attend to thinking practices, and raises issues of power, ideology, and the social…

Discusses some of the current and future challenges in environmental education in the United States and makes suggestions for how these challenges can best be addressed. (Contains 29 references.) (Author/YDS)

Makes the case for the kitchen as a natural source of science exploration. Shares tried and tested activities and offers teaching suggestions such as the use of journals. Relates activities to the National Science Education Standards. (MM)

Findings of a study of 10 graduate student sin an online course conducted via computer conferencing included (1) the need to familiarize participants with software and ensure access; (2) differences in online and face-to-face communication and participation; and (3) the need for careful structuring and attention to detail in online courses.…

Results of the Canfield Learning Styles Inventory, completed by 212 secondary business students, showed that most preferred direct experience--hands-on learning. Least preferred was reading, including textbook assignments. Nearly half (98) clustered around applied and independent learning preferences. (SK)

Richard Rorty, in his "Consequences of Pragmatism" (1982), acknowledging the pragmatic direction taken by both modern and postmodern philosophy, declared that "James and Dewey were not only waiting at the end of the dialectical road which analytic philosophy traveled, but are waiting at the end of the road which, for example, Foucault and Deleuze…