Reports on a sample mini-course in the humanities entitled A Several-Circled Search for Self'' which employs the circus as a theme while stressing the importance of student involvement and the development of self-concept. (RB)

Description of a course, A New Approach to High School Psychology,'' at Doherty Memorial High School, Worcester, Massachusetts

Describes a one month intensive course, offered at Westminster College, entitled Science and Literature: A Study in Values.'' The interdisciplinary course is an attempt to break down the barriers of specialization, and to focus on the reactions of students, scientists, and humanists to Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection. (JR)

Use of the format of a congressional hearing, instead of traditional teaching methods, appears to enhance direct student involvment, interest, and knowledge. Described are the social setting and procedures, research protocol, analysis and evaluation, and conclusions and limitations of the experiment. (KM)

Discusses implementation of a conceptual physics course with emphases upon aspects of acoustics. Includes an outline of the syllabus used. (CC)

Discusses the teaching of a varied open-ended, integrated chemistry course, and indicates that the teaching-learning process is made easier on account of students' varied experiences and high motivations. (CC)

The Keller Method requires abolishing lectures as a vehicle of information transfer in favor of a study guide and breaking the biochemistry course into a number of units each to be mastered at the student's own pace. (Editor)

Use of a variety of student groupings and teaching techniques in a course designed by the authors has led to high student interest and accomplishment, as indicated by attitudinal and subject-matter tests. (IM)

Traditional language teaching has emphasized study to the exclusion of exercise and performance. It is recommended here that the true language laboratory be the drama studio, which gives scope and impulse to every form of linquistic expression, and which has a great range of resources, media and modes of activity. (Author/JB)

This articles relates the experience in indtroducing a new approach to high school psychology in heterogeneously grouped classes of juniors and seniors at Doherty Memorial High School, Worcester, Massachusetts. (Author)