An instructional media professor discovered that using his hands and asking students to imitate his words and movements communicates (via varied learning styles) certain ideas about the brain. Learning is enhanced by a nonthreatening environment, guiding procedures, appropriate facility design, cooperative learning, and multiple ways of knowing.…

Recounts the thoughts and experiences of one university professor returning to teach a class of 3-year-olds. Notes the differences between middle-aged and younger teachers, the importance of college-level educators revisiting "real" classrooms to connect theory with practice, the difficulty of balancing college and preschool teaching,…

Students in a master's level course on adult guidance participated in mapping, locating, and translating guidance and counseling concepts in learning settings. The different maps that emerged suggest that the impact of professional development may be diffuse and indirect. (SK)

Summarizes research focusing on the responses of a small set of British primary schools to inspection of their mathematics program: their anticipation of issues, expectations of findings, and views of how the inspection would contribute to developing good practice. Inspectors' reports seemed to match schools' expectations, but disagreements over…

Current discussion of action theory is premised on the fact that many counselors may avoid action approaches because of previous misunderstandings. Article addresses 12 misunderstandings. Overall, action theory is presented as highly suitable for understanding human behavior and for counseling as it is based on a wide spectrum of research as well…

Explains the contribution narrative makes to counselors' understanding of human action. By viewing action from a narrative perspective, it extends the construct of action beyond the realm of goal-directed behavior into the realm of language. States counselors must pay attention to the ways language can affect therapeutic practices. (JDM)

Reviews 15 years of clinical research in three family therapy (FT) journals that provide evidence for the effectiveness of marriage and family therapy. Considers designs that are being utilized in reports on the effectiveness of various models of FT. Makes connections between research and the everyday work of clinicians to make the work more…

Uses the Gregorc Style Delineator (1982) as the basis for translating learning style theory into the following developmental education teaching practices: teacher-led lesson presentations, student group discussions and projects, independent assignments, and testing situations. Notes that most of the ideas presented should also apply to other adult…

Examines the role of imagined interactions in moving through the cognitive stages of spontaneous second language acquisition. Reviews the findings as a cognitive construct for processing social experience. Introduces a cognitive skill stage model of second language acquisition. Discusses potential applications of the construct of imagined…

Defining and redefining the notion of scholarship in student affairs continues to engage faculty, staff, and students in the profession. This article encourages practitioners to reconsider the very questions being debated. Specifically, how might considering the possibilities for scholarship (as opposed to current constraints and traditions) lead…

Presents interviews with four experts in Hong Kong suburban journalism. Notes that Hong Kong differs from other geopolitical units in being more like a city-state than a nation. Suggests that there is such a thing as suburban journalism in Hong Kong, and that its coverage is comprehensive. (RS)

In response to Forness and Kavale (2001), this article suggests that the new medical model they propose for intervention with children who have emotional or behavioral disorders does not go far enough and that a comprehensive treatment model should incorporate other evidence-based approaches to intervention. (Contains 7 references.) (DB)

Discusses personal teaching experiences to explore issues of the theory and practice of teaching. Explores the application of behaviorism, cognitive theory, and sociocultural theories such as those of Vygotsky to changing classroom environments, and stresses the need for teaching practice to be organized and illuminated by theories. (EV)

Presents a process analysis of a psychodynamic intervention for a client with panic attacks. Discusses how a psychodynamic understanding of the complex etiology of the client's panic attacks that ultimately produced improved coping skills and a subjective sense of improvement for her. Process analysis is used to illustrate the theoretical base,…

Introduces the value of applying research findings about human learning to the design of instruction. Briefly summarizes the journal's other chapters. (EV)