Suggests how the "things of learning" can be employed to promote learning by first examining learning as it occurs in education, focusing on categories of learning outcomes; and then deriving some guidelines about the use of hardware technology as an aid to instruction. (JM)

Considered the need for involving teachers in the long range benefits of developing musicality in children. (Author/RK)

To explore relationships between success in school and infectious childhood disease, 25 children in regular primary grades who had survived laboratory confirmed acute bacterial meningitis prior to 4 years of age without observable sequelae were matched with 25 non-meningitic controls and subjected to intensive multidisciplinary examinations.…

A report on a study to determine the effectiveness of multimedia laboratory instruction as compared to the conventional lecture/demonstration technique when teaching the repair and servicing of carburetors to tenth-grade students. (Author)

The objective of the investigation reported here was to determine if selected teacher stimulus variation skills affected student learning from lecture. (Author)

Author warns that in order for children to develop intellectually educators must recognize the need for prevention of extended deviations in social, physical, emotional and/or mental areas. Early childhood seemed to be the most promising time for effecting desired changes in intellectual growth patterns. (Author/RK)

Author reviews David Nyberg's book, Tough and Tender Learning, which he calls a gentle book that stresses sensitive interaction among humans. (RK)

Article discusses several fundamental considerations that undergird the rationale for adult education. (Author/RK)

Discusses the effects of instruction without direct communication between students and teacher or student and student. (DD)

Article analyzed the problems that arise in student-teacher interaction and explored teaching styles in order to motivate learning among students while reducing personality conflicts. (RK)

Studied relationships of categorizing ability to socioeconomic status and strategies used in ability performance for 60 kindergarteners from families at two income levels. Concluded the presence of differences in test results, a similarity in cognitive developments, and a tendency of perceptual focusing in handling tasks. (CC)

Discusses the West German free school movement and the influence it has for stimulating reassessment in our own educational practices. (Author/RK)