Ninety Swedish teenagers and adults with varying levels of formal education were interviewed about their own learning experiences and techniques. Subjects were then asked what they actually meant by learning. The concept was variously defined as: (1) an increase in knowledge (merely a synonym for the word learning); (2) memorizing; (3) an…

In order to develop an experiential learning curriculum for interdisciplinary social sciences that would take into account the needs and interests of students at Miami-Dade Community College, a review of the literature was undertaken in the following areas: philosophy and experiential learning theory; the role of the teacher; student…

This curriculum guide presents a program of 20 open-ended math activities to be used to supplement the math programs in kindergarten, first, or second grade classrooms. The program consists of child-oriented counters and gameboards used to explore the concept of number from counting to making up and solving addition and subtraction equations. Each…

This math lab activities booklet accompanies a teacher's management guide and a set of five booklets which comprise the basic curriculum for "Mathematics Laboratories for Disadvantaged Students," a nationally validated Title III ESEA project. The materials in this bulletin are designed to serve as the core of the laboratory curriculum.…

Technical and professional persons are especially threatened by the potentiality of becoming outdated in their skills and their knowledge. It is not enough for workers in these fields to maintain the competence acquired in the years of formal education. Their information bank is anything but static; the norm is perpetual change. Psychologists,…

John Dewey said, "Learning is thinking about experience". This dictum accurately reflects the rationale for outdoor activity as experiential education. The term "outdoor learning" refers to a set of activities which have the following characteristics in common: environmental contrast (a sharp environmental change for the participant); physical…

A survey was conducted with 104 seventh-grade students in four classrooms participating in EQUATIONS tournaments. The tournaments had been taking place on a weekly-basis for several weeks. The study compares four basic pedagogical assumptions behind the tournament structure with student opinion of the tournaments. Student responses to the survey…

This publication describes over 100 activity-oriented programs in which students learn through a combination of direct experience and associated instruction or reflection. Students are involved in cross-age tutoring, community services, on-the-job work experiences, foreign or domestic travel with an organized group, political campaigns, field…

The Alpine School District in American Fork, Utah is administering a career education program to provide positive experiences to ninth grade students in exploring various careers. The three week career education mini-course reviews some of the seventh grade curriculum and encourages students to do additional thinking and searching in the area of…

In the past, the skill of the counselor has touched the lives of only a few children. Recently, the emerging role of the counselor as a specialist, consultant, group learer, and supervisor of paraprofessionals has broadened his contact with the student body as a whole. But these are only stopgap measures until a more highly integrated approach to…

This publication reviews the mathematical laboratory from three perspectives: a practical view of laboratories in operation, a review of related research, and a view of current laboratory evaluation procedures. After a discussion of definitions, types, and purposes of math labs, the first paper concentrates on their historical development in…

The 26 activities described in this volume deal with a wide variety of mathematical ideas. Most of the activities are appropriate for grades 6-9; many could be used with older or younger groups as well. All activities are described in detail; some descriptions include sample worksheets, and several provide suggestions for followup activities. The…

Social studies teachers in Liverpool, New York, furnish their students with significant cultural experiences by a strategy called total immersion day. Two middle schools organized this experience by having grade six students examine a particular area, its geography, history, culture, and politics. The culminating activity of the study unit, an…

Population dynamics, broadly defined, can be effectively taught in an interdisciplinary fashion. This course for junior and senior undergraduates is taught by an anthropologist, biologist, demographer, economist, and geographer. It is 75 percent lecture, 25 percent panel discussion with film presentations and has been used successfully as an NSF…

This is a proposal to improve elementary and secondary education programs for students by increasing the extent of their involvement in their respective communities. It is also a set of recommendations on how to make such educational field experiences a central aspect of the curriculum in order to obtain maximum benefit from such involvement in…