This article explores several ways computer-based instruction can be designed to support constructive activities and promote deep-level comprehension during vicarious learning. Vicarious learning, discussed in the first section, refers to knowledge acquisition under conditions in which the learner is not the addressee and does not physically…

The presentation is a brief and free paraphrase of a 1968 article by Thomas G. Saunders (in the American Universities Field Staff Report, West Coast South America Series, vol. 15 n1). The Freire Method makes literacy training a critical, active process through which habits of resignation are overcome. (Author)

Children's learning from television was studied in 343 fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students who viewed an edited version of a television program and took a posttest. It was hypothesized that children would learn more plot-relevant information (central learning material) as they moved from concrete operational to formal operational…

The conference papers provide an overview of some of the main issues and perspectives in the granting of credit for experience by covering the transition from the construction of educational experiences for and with students for the future to the accreditation of experiences of the past. This also includes the problem of translation or…

A series of generalizations about the learning performance of handicapped students was presented with several educational implications of those generalizations. (Author/RK)

Community college students (unless cognitively or emotionally impaired) have an innate learning system or process which makes it possible to do abstract and critical thinking in all their classes. Over an 8-year period, informal research has been conducted with approximately 1,000 low- and high-achieving students, and faculty in classrooms,…

Home, neighborhood, and community are critically examined from the perspective of a young child, and some hard questions are posed as to the value structures that various environments implicitly reinforce. (CS)

The modified text of a speech given at McGill University, Montreal, May, 1972, this paper emphasizes that education is for all of life and that a learning system does exist that includes but goes far beyond the bounds of a school system, as well as a learning force coterminous with the number of active learners in society. (Author/JB)

This article deals with the claim that teaching is an art. The particular view of art held by Heidegger is explored in an effort to find the meaning of art and of teaching. (CJ)

The purpose of this study was to ascertain if low and high academic achievers (n's = 9) learned a simple stick-pulling task similarly. High achievers performed better early in practice, but the advantage disappeared by the end of the nine trials. (Author)

"Bildung" is a key concept in the German tradition of educational theory. Originally meant to indicate a specific state of mind and ideal of perfection, it now serves as a symbol of the unity of whatever refers to the field of education, particularly to its organisational and functional aspects. The aura of "Bildung" is bestowed on its counterpart…

This paper presents the systematic development of a "Uses and Gratification Expectancy" (UGE) conceptual framework which is able to predict students' "Perceived e-Learning Experience." It is argued that students' UGE as regards e-learning resources cannot be implicitly or explicitly explored without first examining underlying communication…

Six museum education and learning researchers discuss the need to study how people learn and behave in museums and what kind of current research studies should be undertaken. Mary Ellen Munley, in "Back to the Future: A Call for Coordinated Research Programs in Museums," describes the differences between the terms…

Article described an innovative program, recently developed into a permanent department at Triton College, which stirred student motivation and learning experience. (Author/RK)

IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT THE CHILD, SURROUNDED BY A SEA OF WORDS, SEQUENTIALLY AND SELECTIVELY ACQUIRES THE NOUNS, VERBS, AND PHRASES OF HIS LANGUAGE AS WELL AS GESTURES, INTONATIONS AND DIALECTS OF THOSE WITH WHOM HE INTERACTS. THE RATE AND BREADTH OF THIS ACQUISITION IS INFLUENCED BY THE NATURE OF HIS VERBAL INTERACTIONS WITH THOSE CHARGED WITH HIS…