This digest features a review of learning styles research with a focus on the Dunn model of learning styles which delineates five types of stimuli: (1) environmental; (2) emotional; (3) sociological; (4) physical; and (5) psychological. Issues related to practical applications of the Dunn model to mathematics and science education, learning…

Chemical change is a central theme of Chemistry which has itself been called the central science. This was the title of a popular American text book. I am thus putting forward the idea that chemical change is an idea central to science as a whole, so that it would be one of the ideas children should understand clearly whilst at school. This is…

Science teachers seek to increase student learning within the area of science. Through the implementation of National Science Education Standards, teachers are provided insights into learning techniques, strategies, and other guidelines for effective learning instruction. Teachers agree science is a complex discipline, which can be seen in the…

Considered the problems in helping students develop reading skills with the accent on teacher responsibility and leadership. (RK)

Paper presented at the 66th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado, August 31, 1971. (DD)

One hundred eighty children from Grades K, 5, and 9 performed a recall task within one of four instructional conditions: serial recall; standard free recall; labeling free recall; labeling cued recall. (Editor)

The present research is concerned with an analysis of the relationship between stimulus learning and retention on the one hand, and concept learning on the other. (Author)

Slightly revised version of a lecture ( Zur grammatischen Beschreibung kommunikativer Elemente in Sprechakten'' Y On Grammatical Description of Communicative Elements in Speech''I) presented in Saarbrucken, West Germany, November 10, 1972. (DD)

Describes an educational project from which was derived a theory of development, a theory of curriculum and a theory of teaching, designed to create an educational system that would be unique in its power to release human potential. (Author/RK)

This article discusses the ways in which environmental studies are being introduced into primary and secondary schools. (Author)

Distinction is made between self (self as a subject) and self-concept. (MB)