Plato's rationale for his ideas on teaching and the problems he confronted in convincing other educational leaders of the validity of his beliefs are discussed. (CK)

Technics for providing campuswide discussion of issues and problems through sensitivity training methods are suggested. (Editor)

Paper presented at the Deutschen Neuphilologentag on April 3, 1970 in Munster, West Germany. (RS)

College students who major in education acquire their teaching skills by chance, that is, colleges differ widely in the programs that they offer. (CK)

Children may perform computational operations readily when dealing with physical materials, but may have difficulty dealing with representational stimuli (pictures of objects) or symbolic stimuli. Describes and illustrates the function of mediators in moving from physical to representational or symbolic stimuli. (PR)

Study results indicate health attitudes of students can be changed, and that the shift may be toward a public health orientation. A modern teaching approach with appreciation for student opinion may be more beneficial to health understanding than is traditional rote learning. (Author)

After briefly reviewing the conception of the term social studies", the author turns to a discussion of present and future curriculum in terms of the increasing use of social studies projects and the position, expectations, and relevance of history. (JB)

Article explores need for improvement in teaching the process of diagnosis as cruicial to delivery of appropriate medical care. (IR)

A breakdown in procedural education is responsible for the present inability to conceptualize change in medical education. (Editor/IR)

Notes that to effectively prevent children from becoming disabled readers the teacher must be able to identify the problem, recognize its significance, and modify the reading program in a way appropriate to the child's needs. Bibliography. (RW)

At Billings, Montana Center for Physically Handicapped Children, both the teaching techniques employed and the design of the classrooms provide the optimum learning climate. (Author/JL)