Purpose: This paper aims to explore the key factors through which an optimum pedagogy mix can be determined towards effective teaching practice and enhanced student learning outcomes in business/management education. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory research design has been used. A sample of 310 was analyzed using exploratory factor…

Outdoor adventure education courses are used in higher education to develop transferable skills such as groupwork and problem-solving skills. There is a need for exploratory investigation into students' perceptions of this experience. This study aimed to develop an innovative qualitative data collection method, and to use it to explore…

Though it is being widely argued that expanding young people's capacity to learn is a viable and desirable goal of education, it it not always clear what this means, how it is to be achieved, and how the effectiveness of interventions is to be assessed. It is argued that the capacity to learn should be interpreted as a portmanteau term that…

Article criticizes the ill-conceived nostrums of the educational engineer and focuses on "opening-up" the learner rather than having him "shape-up" to presumed contingencies that are to come. (Author/RK)

The author discusses planning for a broader base in industrial arts education and for revised methods of teaching/learning. He says that the method of teaching is a key element and that students should learn how to learn, not just the materials and tools skills. (MF)

In this article teachers worked with children in order to develop a sense of community. (RK)

Author looks at some adult literacy work being done with gypsies. (Editor/RK)

Offers a "slide rule" model of learning behaviors and interrelationships among the four domains of learning (affective, cognitive, psychomotor, and perceptual) to help vocational-technical educators structure learning outcomes. (SK)

Discussed the educational policy of Harcum Junior College where the Harcum student is offered a living-learning environment in which policies regarding academic life and living are sufficiently flexible to allow for growing self-responsibility and decision-making. (Author/RK)

The author reminds us that actions in education are based on ideas. The problem is to select those ideas (and ideals) of greatest value. (Editor)

Customized lessons for 310 students add up to a boggling bookkeeping job, but Project PLAN in Winona, Minnesota, ticks it off with dispatch. (Editor)

The process of education is examined. It is suggested that the transition from high school to college should be dynamic, with freshmen jolted and challenged in direct ways. College is a way to fulfill a student's vocation in the present as well as prepare for a future goal. (MLW)

The writings of Alfred North Whitehead, a philosopher who died in 1947, offer much food for thought to present-day educators. Author reviews these writings. (Editor/RK)

In an extract from his book the author defined the role of an "open" teacher. (Editor/RK)

Today as they have during the past 300 years, textbooks play the basic role in telling us who we are as a people and as a nation. (Editor)