Experiential learning as a field of practice is vast. This paper uses the metaphor of a tree to categorize experiential learning's variety, the roots being the underpinning theoretical traditions and the branches the various forms of practice. The place of experience is highly valued in three traditions of adult education: the progressive,…

The author focuses on the problems of adolescence. The aim of the paper is to: (1) examine and understand the problems of both the adolescent and his parents; (2) examine support available to both parties; and (3) suggest alternative ways for parents, adolescents, educators, and health professionals to cope with the core issues and difficulties of…

By its very nature, informal education has built within it the major components of individualization. (HMD)

Reviews research pertaining to S. Elkins' thesis, discusses the limitation of role analysis in explaining the development of slave personalities; suggests the possible advantages of using Neo-Freudian theories of personality development; and comments on the use of Western psychologies in general to explain the behavior of blacks. (Author/JM)

Discussed the responsibility of the school in providing broad programs of physical activity in elementary and secondary schools. (RK)

Argues that the cumulative effect of early non-school related influences indicates that concentrating too heavily on school intervention may perpetuate the schools' ineffectiveness and reduce the possibility that school intervention will effect the child's academic achievement or development of skills needed to break the poverty cycle. (Author/JM)

Business students believe that their courses are preparing them not only for rewarding careers but for rewarding lives--that a better understanding of business and economics will give them a greater opportunity to succeed in their personal lives and in their future roles in society. (Author)

This article posits three subsystems in the classroom ecology: "opportunity structure,""support structure," and "reward structure." The implementation of an ecological approach to student development will require the preparation of a professional with quite different competencies and interests than has been the case. (Author)

Span of life dicussions attempt to help students become more aware of the choices and decisions they make during their college years and how these decisions affect the total span of their lives. Through this program, students begin to explore their own and peer values in relation to the development of a personal life style. (Author)

The clerical office practice curriculum can provide an important thrust toward the improvement of the learning-teaching goal in human development, where student experiences can become more meaningful and purposeful. Concern for maximizing student human potential as well as acquiring technical competence is the emergent goal of human development.…

Report presented at the "Congres de l'Association Internationale des Sciences de l'Education," Paris, France, September 3-7, 1973. (HW)

The emotional climate of a classroom is an important factor in the proper use of media and teachers should encourage students to develop their own sense of responsibility when they use slides, projectors, and tape recorders. Author discusses skills children need for using such media. (Author/RK)

Author evaluates Martin Duberman's account of Black Mountain College, an experiment in education. (Author/RK)

A model is presented for investigating the integration of student and faculty life cycles. It is addressed primarily to the different developmental needs of a healthy nature that inhere in both faculty and students as they engage in various stages of their respective life work. (Author)

The author discusses three types of instructional modes and offers some suggestions on how concord might prevail in tomorrow's schooling. (Author)