Introduced suburban preservice teachers to rural education by providing opportunities for educational interactions with teachers and students in rural schools. Teacher education classes were enhanced by conducting them on a rural, institution-owned campus. Research shows that these courses maintain at least comparable academic rigor to those on…

Discusses key lessons in school landscape design. Landscapes should: (1) include trees and plants that themselves provide hands-on teaching opportunities; (2) enhance health and safety in a number of ways while performing their other functions; (3) be sensitively designed relative to location to cut energy costs; and (4) be aesthetic as well as…

Comparison of 88 business students who completed experiential projects involving data collection and inferential analysis with 125 who received lectures only indicated that the active learning method resulted in better understanding of statistics through the application of theory to real-life situations. (SK)

Investigates the experience of 8 teenage participants on a 12-day adventure trip through observation and semistructured post-trip interviews. Reports that the teen participants conceptualized nature as a place out there as undisturbed, natural, unfamiliar, without people, relaxing and with a sense of freedom. Includes 31 references. (Author/YDS)

Eight adult students who completed experiential learning portfolios reported a marked increase in self-knowledge, greater recognition of the value of learning through work and mentors, improved communication and organization skills, and greater appreciation for the role of reflection. (Contains 73 references.) (SK)

Interviews with 109 Canadian women entrepreneurs explored processes of learning and change and conflicting images and messages they perceived about success, work, and competition, including discourses of self-determination and the good mother. Their experiences show how they either appropriate or resist these messages to shape their own meanings…

A social studies wax museum can teach elementary students facts as they celebrate Halloween. A primary activity has students determine historic scenes to include in the wax museum, practice their poses, and put on a Halloween show. An intermediate activity has students research historic events, interpret information, create backdrops and props,…

Survey responses from 48 perinatal nurses found that most learned about medical devices by reading manuals; 75% had received inservice training; and 95% learned from other staff. Inadequate knowledge was related to fear of causing patient harm. Initial learning method influenced what was learned, and hands-on experience was considered efficacious.…

Methods used in a graduate course on women's issues in counseling are described, and implications for counselor education are discussed. Emphasis is placed on including experiential learning activities so as to help students understand women's experiences within Western culture. Counseling concepts and interventions for dealing with women's issues…

Discusses the concept of permeability as knowledge flow into and out of the classroom and applies it to three college courses taught by the author at Plymouth State College (New Hampshire). Experiential knowledge comes into the classroom through interviews, guest speakers, and panel presentations, and flows out through service-learning students…

A South African university's community development program attempted to integrate Checkland's soft-systems method into Kolb's learning-cycle theory. Evaluation revealed shortcomings in the curriculum design, including the assumption of learner autonomy, necessity of assessing students individually, and difficulty of allowing learners to construct…

Discusses a protest by students at the University of Illinois (Urbana) College of Veterinary Medicine over the killing of animals that led to temporary curtailing of lethal animal experiments. Examines the conflict between animal rights groups and some faculty who are openly skeptical about the effectiveness of alternatives to the hands-on…

Discusses the importance of perceptual learning for adults and describes the development of a 1-day prepared environment of activities for the first day of a Psychology 101 class at a technical-vocational college. Excerpts from students highlighting the importance of reflective teaching practice. (KB)

Describes a lesson in which students develop a knowledge of the principles of chance and apply them to real world events. (CCM)

Discusses why experiential learning is often implemented incompletely in higher education and asserts that the case study approach is an effective way to involve students in all four phases of Kolb's experiential learning cycle. Drawing on previous studies, proposes that experiential learning fosters higher-level learning, such as critical…