Describes the custom-designed, outdoor Jessie Stanton Developmental Playground. Cites it as a successful example of collaborative effort between New York University Medical Center and the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped of the U. S. Office of Education, the funding agency. (Author/JN)

Discusses teaching styles and the essential ingredients of a good project or unit.'' (Author/SP)

For meaningful learning of mathematics, a learning set is required which demands that all things accepted as true should be demonstrable in terms of a paradigm appropriate to the child's cognitive development: preparatory, concrete-particular, concrete-general, formal-abstract. Future teachers should experience all paradigms to become aware that…

Describes briefly the basic principles of humanistic psychology in contrast with behaviorism and Fraudianism. Presents some guidelines for science educator's use of humanistic psychology in the classroom. (PS)

Describes a study which used fourth and sixth grade children who had used Science - A Process Approach" and compared their performance with that of a control group on two conservation-of-volume tasks. Performance of the volume tasks was found to be related to age and score on the Learning Hierarchies Test and not to previous science program…

Teachers can be more effective if they develop an understanding of the causes of anxiety and the inner conflicts it may represent. (NH)

Suggests that administering tests to students on the tasks in a learning hierarchy is a means of obtaining precise knowledge about the capabilities of individual students. Such knowledge is necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of learning difficulties. Decisions regarding the selection of appropriate learning tasks for students based on their…

In part 1 (SE 532 193) an outline of Ausubel's learning theory was given. The application of the theory to elementary school science is addressed in this part, clarifying what elementary science means and indicating how it relates to what may be expected to be already known by elementary school children. (Author/JN)

Three experiments investigated effects of attentional factors on children's learning set performance. Younger children's learning was differentially affected by two or more irrelevant dimensions. Practice improved performance for all ages. Results confirmed that irrelevant dimensions and within-problems exposure interact with age and amount of…

Discussed hidden curricula of dichotomous drug education teaching methods. Suggested that hidden curriculum of traditional drug education teaching style reinforces some qualities characteristic of substance abusers. Proposes that hidden curriculum of nontraditional teaching methods is more likely to teach attributes consistent with appropriate use…