This article describes the outdoor and indoor adventure experience and its relationship to counseling. A conceptual framework of Adventure Based Counseling has been developed to provide a better understanding of the process and potential benefits of this approach and to serve as a model for researchers. (Contains 68 references.) (GCP)

This article focuses on experiential learning as a teaching and learning methodology to increase students' multicultural counseling competencies. Outlines ethical and practical suggestions for using experiential learning in multicultural counseling curriculum. (Contains 43 references.) (GCP)

Goals of the Children's Museum of Boston are to encourage curiosity, skepticism, and realism while providing opportunities for discoveries and new insights. The museum addresses the needs of young children through adolescents by providing a multicultural environment and participatory learning centers. (JDD)

The inquiry approach of Discovery Place of Birmingham, Inc., in Birmingham, Alabama, invites children of all ages to explore the excitement of science, technology, art, and humanities. The educational resource center provides interactive exhibits, hands-on materials, teacher workshops, and family programs. (JDD)

Explores how outdoor experiential education can facilitate personal growth and transformation by balancing adventure-based activities with inner-directed processes. Discusses transpersonal psychology and research on consciousness and brain functions relevant to the process of transformation. Describes a specific technique to access deeper levels…

Maintains that preschool and kindergarten curricula should encourage experiential learning, and not just formal academic education. (BB)

Noting the dim employment prospects for youth and the economic plight of young American families, a recent Grant Foundation report calls for more experience-based schooling. Also recommended is better funding for existing Head Start, Chapter 1, and federal job training programs and for new legislation--the Fair Chance/Youth Opportunities Act. (MLH)

Examines how a recently developed peer observation program for principals (Peer-Assisted Leadership) is being adapted for preservice and inservice training programs across the country. Training adaptations used in preparation programs include coaching and follow-through, mentoring, and peer support, while inservice programs feature mentoring and…

Law-related education works best when teachers abandon manuals and prepackaged teaching modules for teaching strategies that tap each student's prior knowledge and relevant life experiences. Ten themes are suggested, along with six teaching components (knowledge competencies, motivating and learning activities, curriculum correlation, relation to…

Although all students need more and better science classes to face the next century's challenges, students gifted in science also need access to dedicated teachers willing to assist their learning progress and encourage their production of original research projects. Integrating the science curriculum would also benefit gifted and other students.…

Describes the University of Virginia's EXTERN program, a program designed by the university's Office of Career Planning and Placement to allow students an opportunity to experience the realm of corporate professionals in a career field of their choice. Explains how manual placement process was made more manageable by developing and installing…

Although the ease and merits of using electronic mail can be discussed and demonstrated, experiencing it in conjunction with learning activities stimulates students' interest in the integrated office environment they will be entering. (JOW)

The authors describe a series of workshops given on the topic of scientific literacy. Titles included (1) Human Genetics, (2) Microbes and Man, and (3) The Science of Growing Plants. They discuss program development, implementation, content, and outcomes. Policy-related observations are included. (Author/CH)

Contains four personal accounts of counselors' dealing with the death of a child: (1) "Lessons for Living from a Dying Child" (Garry Landreth); (2) "The Long Afternoon" (Malcolm Linville); (3) "The Birth of Empathy" (Alan Steed); and (4) "Death Vigil for Heather: When Counseling and Grieving Became Inseparable" (Stephen Weinrach). (NB)

Responds to 58 articles in special journal issue dealing with critical incidents, or direct experiences which have impacted the counselors who experienced them. See critical incidents as examples of Jung's concept of synchronicity, two simultaneous events that occur coincidentally and, although not causally related, result in a meaningful…