Tells the story of a Hawaiian man who learned to navigate without instruments like the ancient Polynesian wayfinders, explaining how he acquired navigational skills from mentors and books, discussing his views on education, and describing a trip he took in a double-hulled canoe designed according to ancient Polynesian petroglyphs. (SM)

As part of two outdoor workshops (n=37 and 38) for Master of Business Administration students focused on team building, teams completed case studies. A control group completed case studies without the outdoor component. Results clearly indicated that outdoor education can accelerate team development and the evaluation method proved useful. (SK)

Describes a Wyoming junior high school teacher's expansion of a library research assignment to an Eagle Writing Project stressing practical skills applications, including critical thinking, listening, note taking, reviewing, respecting different opinions, communicating with government officials, writing as a practical tool, and respecting the…

Before instruction, 192 nursing students completed Kolb's Learning Style Inventory; 53.7% were concrete learners, 46.3% reflective. No significant associations appeared between learning style and age, sex, prior employment, or educational attainment. Methodological problems were found with using this instrument in nursing education. (SK)

Students in mental health nursing participated in researching, writing, acting in, and evaluating a play about schizophrenia. The experience demonstrated drama's effectiveness as a tool to develop sensitivity about health care concerns. (SK)

Illustrates the subtlety of racism in daily life and suggests the responsibility of white people to acknowledge their access to privilege and power based on skin color, to remain accountable for the history of oppression of people of color, to change their attitudes and behaviors, and to work toward justice for all. (KS)

Reviews the literature on debriefing and identifies the essential elements and phases of the debriefing process. A model for systematic assessment of debriefing is presented which consists of five sets of questions that focus on learning objectives, situational constraints, the debriefing strategy, implementation of the strategy, and the…

Action-reflection learning (ARL) is a learning-by-doing alternative to expert-based training. In an ARL program, training becomes a project in which learning takes place while participants try to solve a work-related problem. The process is always conducted in teams. (Author/JOW)

At Southwest High School in Fort Worth, Texas, an applied learning project enables chemistry students to determine the most effective, economical, and environmentally safe fertilizer for the lawns of schools in the district. (SK)

Many college-level management and organizational behavior courses create and use small, ongoing student groups. Group work offers team members an opportunity to learn about small-group dynamics and development. Frequently, instructors' efforts to help students learn from their own experience is thwarted by students' reluctance to face up to group…

Because labor unions are voluntary, democratic, collective organizations, labor education is better delivered through active participative learning methods, built on participant knowledge, with the teacher as facilitator of the process. (SK)

At the University of Georgia, a leadership seminar provides experiential leadership training for undergraduate and graduate agricultural education majors. Credit is awarded for weekly seminar attendance and 30 points of documented leadership activity. (SK)

An experimental teleconference on experiential learning demonstrated the usefulness of distance education in developing adults' critical thinking skills and attacking the undereducation of the scattered, oppressed adult population of South Africa. (SK)

In one Colorado fifth grade classroom, math period begins with Mathematician's Chair, an activity allowing students to share their problems with entire class. Using this technique, students became adept at writing math problems, solving their own and peers' problems, using math-related writing as important medium of social discourse, and making…

Current applications of experiential learning in higher education include field-based experiences, credit for prior learning, and classroom-based programs. In the workplace, action learning, future search, and outdoor education are among the forms of experiential learning being used. (SK)