Describes a program in which college agricultural education majors between their junior and senior years are placed with vocational agriculture teachers to gain experience in conducting a summer vocational agriculture program. (HD)

A prototype of a college-level adult-centered environmental education program is described whose target population is citizens serving as volunteers in local planning boards, conservation commissions, and environmental organizations. The model involves enrolling experience citizens in courses with graduate students as community organization…

Over the past seven years technology students and teachers at the Walkerton District Secondary School in Ontario, Canada have been designing and building projects for community organizations ranging from picnic pavilions to football bleachers. Both the community and the staff and students benefit from this practical experience. The article…

A review of programs designed to prepare both Third World and Western journalists for worldwide careers in the media is presented. The need for journalism training is noted and consideration is given to formal and informal programs, internships, observation tours, awards, and programs abroad. (LBH)

The history of each of these models is traced and their different components analyzed. Examples from field instruction illustrate their impact on supervisory behavior. It is emphasized that learning in field work is significantly related to the manner in which the role system is defined. (Author/LBH)

Considerations that led to the adoption of a clinical approach to legal education at the University of Kent are described. Focus is on the organization of legal education in England and Wales, the scope of educational reforms, and the development of clinical legal education in the U.S. (LBH)

The approach described is used at the University of Michigan at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in architecture to implement teaching materials regarding designing for the elderly. It uses lecture series, experiential field exercises, direct input to designer studios, and elective courses on the elderly. (LBH)

Findings of an ethnographic study of student teaching experiences in a program emphasizing field-based practicums are explored. What students do in practicum sites, what influences behavior, ideas, attitudes, and different ways students respond to placement are described. Also discussed are how these findings are related to theoretical constraints…

A method of teaching alternative dispute resolution (ADR) involves sending students to observe actual ADR sessions, by agreement with the agencies conducting them, and then analyzing the students' observations in focused discussions to improve student insight and understanding of the processes involved. (MSE)

Describes a four-semester course in technical communication that culminates in a student project for which students work in teams aided by faculty managers to define a project, learn about it on their own, gather evidence, choose the best solution, and defend their choices to an outside client. (SRT)

The benefits of using Stake's contingency and congruence model for educational program evaluations are demonstrated by the results of evaluating two worksite programs for academically talented minority high school students. Recommendations from the Career Awareness evaluation were incorporated into the Biomedical Science program, resulting in a…

Outlines three different models of formal experiential education: instruction group process, simulation and games, and field experience. Describes the development of the Field Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley and examines the process by which all three traditions were effectively integrated into the program. (SB)

Describes the new roles and benefits for both students and faculty that are resulting from the increase in the use of internship training as a component of professional and pre-professional training in higher education institutions. (SB)

A method for evaluating undergraduate field experiences in psychology that takes into account attainment of individual goals and quality of supervision is evaluated. Results showed that the most satisfactory field placements are those in which there is a well-organized, explicitly structured training program. (RM)

Trend toward restriction of law schools' clinical program involvement in public interest litigation by state legislators and private groups is chronicled, the American Association of Law Schools' related study is summarized, and the broader problem in legal education of individual versus institutional autonomy is discussed. (MSE)