The ideas presented in this lecture are based on the observation of processes of construction and consolidation of knowledge by individual students learning in groups within classrooms along a sequence of activities. Whereas the uniformity of the basic elements used to describe the knowledge construction processes may be seen as inclusive, there…

This research paper explores the role of schooling in the formation of students' gender identities with particular attention to the social construction of masculinity. Understanding the formation of male identity is important in thinking about the roles of teachers and classrooms. Six pre-service teachers, three male and three female, were…

This reader brings together work by Howard Gardner and his colleagues at Project Zero (Harvard Graduate School of Education) to provide a coherent picture of what has been learned about the educational applications of multiple intelligences theory from school projects and formal research over the past decade. The chapters are: (1) "In a Nutshell";…

This paper summaries a study on the participation of 10 students (ages 18-21) with developmental disabilities in the transition from school to work using the Whole Life Planning model. Data included observations of organizational and planning meetings and structured interviews with the students, parents, and facilitators. Analysis resulted in the…

Reading at Risk presents the results from the literature segment of a large-scale survey, the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, conducted by the Census Bureau in 2002 at the request of the National Endowment for the Arts. This survey investigated the percentage and number of adults, age 18 and over, who attended artistic performances,…

In light of the importance given to the consideration of individual difference variables in the identification of client-treatment compatability, thhe present study examined the locus of control variable as a predictor of individual preference for type of group counseling. (Author)

Article presented a look at the characteristics of both graded and non-graded schools and how they stack up as a means of educating today's children for tomorrow. (Editor/RK)

In this paper, the relation between heritability and sources of group differences is analyzed in terms meaningful to the nonmathematician. (Author)

Author attempts to evaluate some issues common to this journal, such as, bridging the gap between research and theory on the one hand and classroom teaching on the other. (Author/RK)

Appropriate reading materials in the classroom which are self-directed, self-corrective, and a suitable level of difficulty can provide the student practice in those skills in which he is deficient. (MM)

Before long, the lines of demarcation between studies of cognitive development and studies of social development will have been blurred beyond distinction. Students will no longer identify themselves as studies of intellectual development or students of social development. (Author)

The Zeigarnik effect, that is, the greater recall of incompleted over completed tasks was found to be significantly more frequent in Ss of high than low resultant achievement motivation, but no difference was found between repressors and sensitizers in this effect. (Authors)

The semantic differential technique was used to discover similarities and differences in the meaning of words between teachers in training and counselors in training. A number of differences were revealed which indicate that teachers in training and counselors in training are not in accord as to the connotations of certain concepts. (Author)