The author illustrates and discusses some critical barrier phenomena, such as the optics of mirrors and heat and cold, which most people have difficulty extending beyond an everyday understanding. (Author/MA)

The properties of the human brain are described and related to the learning of languages. (DT)

Authors explore some newly developed concepts about learning and discuss the influence of these concepts on current investigations of cognitive development in children. (HS)

Discusses several basic methodologies of the teaching-learning process for both content and process knowledge. (TA)

Author stresses the importance of art, music, and literature experiences in the perceptual development of a child. (GB)

The focus of this discussion is on the providing of educational experiences which will help students develop skills at various levels of learning awareness. Examples of different levels and the skills associated with them are presented. (JP)

A synthesis is presented of the various rationales which predict the facilitative influence of instructional objectives on learning and retention. (Author)

Author argues that individual assessment of the students learning style should precede the decision of which teaching method is appropriate. He applies the medical terminology of diagnosis-prescription to this method of instructional development for management. (HB)

This study tested the effectiveness of incentive conditions across socioeconomic class levels in a school situation. The results suggest that material incentives generally are more effective than social incentives and no feedback in the classroom learning of fourth graders. (Author)

Study to determine whether learning is a phenomenon of input processing, output processing, or both. (Author/DS)

A master motif for the architectonic mode in liberal learning is the paradox of freedom and form -- form in terms of both constraining agent and motivating goal. (Author)

Argues that a mastery of teaching methods is insufficient as a guide to understanding the developmental learning processes they are supposed to produce; and that these processes, when they occur in a management development program, are not controlled by the educator alone. (Author)

Discusses the How People Learn'' elective for upper elementary students at Loretto, in Kansas City, in which students experimented and discovered how they themselves learned. (NL)