This article describes a sixteen-week, read-aloud intervention conducted using culturally and experientially-relevant literature with six urban middle school youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), to facilitate prosocial skill development through opportunities for personal reflection and sharing through journaling and group…

Digital teaching portfolios have been proposed as an effective tool for teacher learning and professional development, but there is a lack of empirical evidence supporting their effectiveness. This study proposed the design of a structured digital portfolio equipped with multiple aids (e.g. self-assessment, peer assessment, discussion and journal…

The increased focus on the role of research in the social service sector, pressure for practitioners to engage in research and the demand for integration of research and practice challenges faculties about ways in which to engage social work students in research. This paper evaluates a research based practicum program within a social work faculty…

This article reports on findings from a school-based action research project with aboriginal adolescent students attending an alternative school in Canada. As a Freirean response to these marginalized students' school failures, the researcher engaged students in a critical multiliteracies approach to language and literacy learning. Based on…

New professionals can benefit from support and mentoring as they transition into their jobs, and research suggests that school counselors often do not receive formal mentoring from other school counselors. In this qualitative study, seven first-year school counselors were asked to keep journals during their first year and to reflect on their…

Notes that educators at all levels are involved in a paradigm shift--from the view that knowledge is an external entity existing independently of human thought and action to knowledge as mutually constructed by teacher and student. Describes the use of a double-entry journal that engages learners actively in constructing their own meanings. (RS)

Explains the application of action research to work-based learning, describing the action research cycle and meta learning. Outlines key processes for action research projects: keeping journals, managing dual roles of employee and researcher, managing politics and ethics. Offers suggestions for writing an action research dissertation. (SK)

This article explores the use of learning journals as a counseling strategy that can be used to complement a counselor's therapeutic orientation. The authors postulate that learning journals will have therapeutic effects on clients that will lead to enduring positive changes, discuss the development of appropriate learning taxonomies to evaluate…

The article reviews the lives of two highly gifted young writers, the Scottish Marjorie Fleming and the American Betty Ford. It gives samples of their early writing and follows their lives as far as is known. Conclusions are drawn concerning the needs and development of highly verbally gifted children. (DB)

A daily or weekly academic journal kept by the student can help parents who want to involve themselves more actively in their child's schoolwork. Sample journals are included in this article in addition to several homework hints. (IAH)

Lists and discusses briefly six "jumpstarters" for writers, intended to "rev them up and keep them going." (SR)

Participants (n=10, all female) were asked to generate either a metaphor for themselves as journal keepers, or for their journal-keeping process. The women chose metaphors suggesting that journal keeping was positive and regenerating; journals were also educational in that they could help the women see and speak more clearly about their lives. (CC)

Women often use journal writing to discover or regain their voice. They often face attitudinal, situational, and institutional barriers to journal writing that adult educators can help them overcome. (Contains 16 references.) (SK)

Introduces a 2-day laboratory experiment on scientific inquiry and the environment. Studies antlion classification and investigates anatomy, habitat, life cycle, behavior, and other properties of antlions. Adapted for different grade levels and includes a scientific journal report. (YDS)

Makes the case for articles in this journal to have more references to enhance its status as a professional publication. Makes recommendations for authors as to how this may be achieved. (MM)