Understanding the differences in values that differing cultures attach to play may help educators (1) to clarify the role of spontaneous play, (2) to recognize the limitations of competitive play, (3) to better balance directed and spontaneous play, and (4) to view play as absorbed, joyful, educative activity. (Author/AJ)

Learning and development, by both teacher and pupils, emerge from a system of interaction and mutuality (DB)

Partly a reply to Hans P. Guth's The Monkey on the Bicycle: Behavioral Objectives and the Teaching of English" Y English Journal," vol. 59, no. 6 (September 1970), pp. 785-927I. (RD)

The Medical School Learning Environment Questionnaire (LEQ) was developed to detect changes within the environment of an institution. (Editor)

This woodshop group project of building a small storage shed is designed to associate the skills, tools, and equipment with actual industrial experience. (GB)

The college Companion Program, launched in 1964 at Overbrook Hospital in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, enables college students to interact with mental patients on an informal basis. (Author)

Discusses teaching methods which may be used to help students become more sensitive to life outside their own spheres and routines; illustrated. (SW)

Described the efforts of an elementary school teacher to help her students to think and verbalize about their current experiences while including in the lesson some art history of the Paleolithic period. (Author/RK)

Suggestions from four humane educators and a child psychologist are offered to parents wanting to teach the humane ethic to children so that it becomes a lifestyle. Initial steps to be taken and how parents should build child/pet relationships are also discussed. (JN)

A summary is given of 20 years of research on learning intellectual skills, with emphasis on Australian contributions. The review covers historical development of the research, learning hierarchies, shifts in experimental paradigm in investigating teaching methods, methods for studying cognitive structure, and suggestions for research. (MSE)

Hunkins asserts that the curriculum has been splintered in reaction to myriad demands upon the schools. He outlines a plan for a "curriculum of encounters" which seeks to enable students to become complete human beings and has the potential for bringing unity and purpose to school programs. (SK)