Graduation 2010 is a public school curriculum project based on recent neurological research, the goal of which is to increase children's capacity to learn. The program consists of eight action plans, or strands: Arts, Music, Foreign Language, Reading/Language Development, Thinking Skills, Health/Emotional Health, Family Involvement, and Community…

The author describes events in her children's lives which illustrate their growth through curiosity and the ways in which parents can nurture a child's innate curiosity. (ED)

A look at research from the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, York, United Kingdom, on the design of spaces for learning. (HB)

Food and nutrition affect the course in physical development that our bodies will follow. Our emotional make-up and mental behavior may be influenced by diet, but the direct relationship between these aspects of development and nutrition needs further study. A new research approach is described. (Author/RH)

An evaluation model based on Scriven (1972) is presented for assessing teacher effectiveness in a beginning architecture design class using student learning gains. (Authors/JA)

Discusses evaluation as it relates to university learning. An evaluation model, emphasizing the setting of objectives, is explained. A broad evaluation of current teaching-learning evaluation procedures is made. (Author/PG)

Learning and attitude change are two cognitive processes essential to therapeutic change in counseling. Recently two cognitive models that reflect current research and theory, one focusing on learning and the other on attitude change, have each been applied to counseling with promising results. Martin's cognitive instructional counseling (CIC) is…

This paper considers educational technology in the light of both rationalist and existentialist theory, arguing that the predominance of rationalism in educational technology may be a dangerous tendency. Existentialist theory is first considered as a way--albeit with limitations--to begin examining educational technology from an ethical…

This article presents a step-by-step problem-solving model that facilitates change from a teacher-centered to a student-centered class. (Author)

A discussion of the changing goals of higher education, including academic excellence, personal identity, and social utility and their implications for evaluating learning. (Editor)

Using the ideas of scientists, the author builds a theme of reflexivity and identifies implications for teaching and learning science. He argues that a sociology of school science is not academic and irrelevant to teachers but just the opposite. (PEB)

The present study examined the merits of different methods of introducing rehearsal techniques. (Author)