Discussed the role of the community college in establishing relevance in the curriculum in response to students demanding a second in education. (RK)

Describes, giving examples, the use of a Socratic game in which a law class is assigned a case to read and in class one student is asked to make argument for the plaintiff, a second to explain the defendent's position, a third to give a judicial ruling with reasons. (JT)

Problems of integrating children from early education programs (3-to-5-year-olds) into the structure and curriculum of kindergarten are discussed in relation to the changing roles of both kindergarten and early education teachers. (BRT)

Concept learning and synectic strategies must be incorporated into the language arts curriculum to ensure concept development. (JH)

In many social studies classes learning is made "relevant" by simply presenting contemporary issues and current affairs. However, when teaching about issues, certain decisions need to be made concerning content and techniques. The author makes a suggestion that the major content focus on not merely understanding the problems facing society, but…

The history of education may also be a history of society. Today's problem is that too few want to look at history in seeking to improve education. (Editor/RK)

The author describes simple techniques for providing individualized help within a group teaching situation. (SD)

A case is given against teaching division of fractional numbers. Types of problems usually solved by division are solved by methods involving only multiplication. (JP)

The cognitive operations that predispose a learner to perceive and approach a situation in a given way define his mental set. A survey of the research on problem solving indicates that an instructor should encourage students to vary strategies in searching for solutions to problems. (NHM)

The arguments for and against Thomas Kuhn's paradigmatic thesis are presented in this paper as a means of discussing the appropriateness of Kuhn's thesis to the emerging composition discipline. Section one of the paper introduces the topic, noting how the term paradigm is used in composition to define a system of widely shared values, beliefs, and…

This users' manual, intended for use with a Project Head Start teacher training notebook, describes the purpose, development and field testing of the training materials and suggests procedures for using the notebook as a resource in teacher training sessions. The training notebook to which the users' manual refers is based on 11 questions in the…

This study attempts to identify the reasons teachers give for using or not using small instructional groups in larger classroom settings and to investigate the relationship of teacher opinions about using small groups to teachers' problems in classroom management. The research was conducted in two phases, with sample sizes of 73 and 51 for phases…

Ways in which the emerging field of cognitive science can have a major impact on practical education are demonstrated by an overview of two projects: the work on Socratic tutoring by Collins and Stevens, and the diagnosing students' misconceptions in arithmetic by Brown and Burton. These two projects are cited as examples of how the techniques of…