Students in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, are leaving the school to spend as much as a full semester learning about the adult world. (Author)

The article discusses how to tap a maple tree. Tapping a maple tree to produce maple syrup can: (1) lead to better understanding in many subject areas, (2) develop skills through participation in a rewarding activity, and (3) help students appreciate the many important roles that trees play in our environment and daily lives. (NQ)

Emphasizing the need to experience environments through both sensory and psychological awareness, this workshop model's goals are to: explore basic environmental concepts and examine them in relationship to the classroom; provide an experience base for each of these concepts; and relate environmental concepts and activities to specific curriculum…

Dominant models of experiential learning contain uncritical assumptions about experience. Locating experience in postmodern social practices emphasizes how it is shaped by culture. In critical practices, experience is not something from which knowledge can be derived but is itself knowledge. (SK)

Unemployed adult students organized a conference that proved to be a transforming experience. They developed public speaking skills, confidence, and knowledge useful to participation in public debate on social issues. (SK)

The Program on Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction and the American Council on Education College Credit Recommendation Service are national methods of evaluating programs and granting credit for learning acquired through noncollegiate organizations. (SK)

An "interview" with John Dewey explores his view of educational assessment that measures both knowledge and its application as well as the impact of work and life experiences. His arguments for a unitary system that integrates vocational and academic curriculum are presented. (SK)

The Degree of Experience is a program for accrediting prior learning (APL) at a London university. Advantages for students lacking entry qualifications include admission criteria stated in terms of skills, knowledge, and ability (SKA) rather than credentials; accurate SKA profiles for diagnosing weaknesses; and integration of APL into admissions…

Being truly literate means being able to navigate the multiple sign systems of our world--to respond appropriately to an e-mail message or to convey meaning to others through images and text. Instead of relying on written narrative texts, teachers must develop inquiry-based methods, using experiential learning projects, oral storytelling, film and…

States that an Experience Questionnaire was administered to 231 students at the University of Hawaii in selected training activities: 3 experiential exercises, an immersion activity, or viewing training videos. Indicates that the experiences associated with the experiential exercises were in important ways different from those in intercultural…

The developmental change process is illustrated by Lewis Carroll's Alice. Development is not a direct reflection of the self but a process of looking awry at experience. This perspective has implications for various teaching methods. (Contains 27 references.) (SK)

Experiential learning can be understood as a process in which learners recognize and develop their "action-theory." The aim of outdoor development programs--whether mainstream education, corporate training, or therapy--is to facilitate this process. A "reflection-in-action" approach to facilitation is presented and situated in…

People involved in adventurous activities frequently experience positive phenomena termed peak experience, peak performance, and "flow." Characteristics of these phenomena are compared, along with factors influencing the ability to experience such peak moments. Csikszentmihalyi's flow models are examined with regard to perceived levels…

A laboratory, project, and field experience matrix is used to identify achievement of learning outcomes in an engineering physics course that stresses teamwork and creativity in an interdisciplinary context. The interactive/experiential lab develops transferable skills for the technological workplace. (SK)

Classifies trends in management development approaches using Kolb's experiential learning model: (1) abstract conceptualization (traditional management education); (2) active experimentation (action learning, project, and consultancy approaches); (3) concrete experience (competency based); and (4) reflection (reflective practicum, apprenticeship).…