Defends the claims made in an earlier publication by the authors that inservice programs should be more experiential because the cognitive development of adults is less uniformly advanced than previously supposed and because experiential learning is more effective. Cites additional supportive research. (PGD)

A new journal feature shares practical ideas in experiential education in less than 800 words. This issue presents an initiative problem, rules for rope push, exercise illustrating dependence on schedules, how to experience a handicap, maple sugaring project, assignment bridging the generation gap, simulating literary experiences, and local…

This article explores the thesis that goals of environmental, experiential, and general education are common. Included are overviews of the three types of education from a humanistic view and attempts to relate the three areas through program reviews, practitioner ideas, and exploration of an environmental-experiential continuum. (Author/RE)

Describes a six-month project emphasizing participant-observation teaching strategy in which a third-grade class of 24 students employed methods of environmental design to design communities within a modern forest and more primitive tundra and desert regions. Discusses project goals, results, and implications for future use of environmental design…

Describes one classroom art activity and two events celebrating Youth Art Month. In the activity, junior high school students created collages and then made drawings from the collages. The events included student art demonstrations in shopping malls and other experiential art workshops. (AM)

As part of a project in working class history, ninth grade students conduct a bean bake for 1500 people. They cook pork-and-beans in huge black pots fueled day and night by two cords of wood and bake 1500 rolls of bread. An old-fashioned hoedown follows the feed. (KC)

Citizenship experiences are not reserved exclusively for community political institutions. The social studies curriculum provides an opportunity to capitalize on the development of citizenship competencies by using actual experiences. (CJ)

The author lists the reasons for assigning homework in secondary classes and analyzes the reasons students give for avoiding it. This article is reprinted from the Council for Basic Education, Vol. 23, No. 1, September, 1978. (SJL)

Reports that an approach in which college students enacted skits developed around vocabulary words proved more effective than a traditional approach to teaching vocabulary. (MKM)

Discusses approaches to management education and development, stating that organizational improvement is facilitated by working with managers rather than by teaching them in the traditional sense. The manager can develop only through his own experience and through the organizational processes of which he is a part. (MF)

Describes benefits of museum field trips to elementary school children. Suggests that the experience is especially beneficial to students with learning disabilities and physical or emotional handicaps. (KC)

Provides lesson plans, including materials, aims, and behavioral objectives, designed to make music part of the preschool curriculum. (Author/DB)

To be an effective outdoor education teacher one must: (1) be prepared; (2) teach only what has been experienced; (3) have his own style; and (4) explain skill, demonstrate it, and have the students perform the skill. (CM)

Uses the Outward Bound School in Colorado as a metaphor for a school that emphasizes putting practice into theory, which suggests a willingness to improvise on the part of teachers and students who are fully capable of figuring out for themselves the individual and social imperatives of education. (Author/IRT)

Describes a course on teaching and learning resources which relied solely upon students borrowing instructional materials from outside organizations, and was designed to provide students with an exposure to a wide variety of instructional media and with skills in the selection and evaluation of instructional materials. (CMV)