Despite the wide agreement among educators that classroom learning and teaching processes can gain much from student and teacher questions, their potential is not fully utilized. Adopting the view that reporting both teachers' (of varying age groups) views and actual classroom practices is necessary for obtaining a more complete view of the…

Affective teaching plays an increasing significant role in the teaching process; it not only attaches great importance to the teaching of knowledge and skills, but also pays specific attention to students' attitude and emotional needs in the process of teaching, so as to promote students' overall development as well as improving their…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate ways in which university students are introduced to disciplines and thence to the professions based on those disciplines. Design/methodology/approach: E-mail interviews with a broad sample of university teachers in a variety of professional disciplines formed the basis of a grounded theory…

A book designed to instruct teachers in how to develop favorable attitudes toward learning in their students is reviewed. (DB)

Study compared teachers' attitudes toward human nature (trustworthiness, altruism, independence, and strength of will) with their interest in using affective methods. "Typical" prospective user of affective methods was female, with strong negative belief in the altruistic characteristics of people. (DS)

Criticizes educational "bandwagon" movements developed by "barbarians" who exploit and manipulate students while rejecting the learning principles characteristic of humanistic education. (RL)

A review of the studies on the open space classroom indicate that this educational approach is more effective than the self contained classroom. The studies are discussed in terms of academic achievement, teaching techniques, affective factors, and teacher attitudes and characteristics. (MS)

Before technical educators can develop pride and professional manner in their students, they themselves must be proud to be teachers of allied health professionals. A program is described in which behavioral techniques are both used and taught. (Author/AJ)

Affective learning, psychomotor learning and cognitive learning are three objectives of education; they cannot be completely separated and often one type of objective may be a means of achieving another. This study attempted to begin bridging the gap between the affective objectives and the cognitive-psychomotor objectives in foreign language…

There is a risk of second language teachers becoming emotionally overcharged about innovative methods and techniques. Innovators promoting particular methods often claim comprehensive answers to instructional problems, and in spite of an apparent concern for scientific respectability, new approaches take on some characteristics of religious…

The educational priorities of 90 key decisionmakers -- school administrators, teachers, and community members -- from school districts representing three economic levels, were investigated to determine: (1) the types of educational objectives preferred by each group, (2) the agreements within and among the three groups of decisionmakers in these…

The Teacher Preparation Workshop and Test Workshops Project were conducted to develop and pilot test a process approach to staff development in career education in the affective domain at elementary and middle school levels. An attempt was made to develop selected learning experiences which would influence attitudes of teachers toward…

This newsletter contains a series of brief reports concerning methods of individualizing language learning and describes several ongoing experiments. The first article illustrates how individualized achievement charts aid in determining students' instructional needs. Group work and oral testing are discussed as a means of individualizing a course…

This paper explores the value, the sources, and the components of energizing experiences in college classrooms. Energizing experiences are described as moments of interest and excitement or vitality within the college classroom environment. Data on energizing experiences were gathered from the team teaching experiments by graduate students in…

Seeking to answer the question of how language affects character by widening the learner's world, this article reviews in broad terms the present conditions in the study of foreign languages, reviews the attitudes of the "new student" in foreign languages, and challenges educators to consider new directions in the development of advanced placement…