Recounts the experiences of an education expert who learned from his Navajo Indian students that there are many modes of learning. Identifies the dominant modes as symbolic/abstract, visual, kinesthetic/integrative, and auditory; argues for the value of each. (First part of a two-part article.) (FL)

Children between the ages of 10 and 11 1/2 years were given a problem in interpersonal persuasion in either a practical or a hypothetical context. Children in the practical context exhibited higher levels of perspectivism than those in the hypothetical context. (JMB)

Analyzes Thomas Farrell's discussion of the distinction between male and female modes of rhetoric. Discusses the linking of theory to experience and the creation of nonadversarial argument which suggests two pedagogical practices that can help overcome the dominance of current-traditional rhetoric in the writing classroom. (MG)

Describes variation on role plays used in counselor education classes that teach lessons about the counseling process. (Author/CM)

Results of two studies investigating preschool children's ability to infer another person's knowledge or ignorance on the basis of that person's recent perceptual experience suggest that understanding of perception as a source of knowledge is present by the age of three years. (RH)

Hypothesizes about the relationship between history and fiction. Discusses the contribution of history to understanding human affairs, stressing that history is true and fiction is not. Asserts that each generation uses the same materials to construct a new reality. States fiction gives only a partial view whereas history sees the world as whole.…

Examined the relationship between perspective taking in response to another's distress and prosocial behavior and dispositional affective empathy in late childhood. The tendency to reflect spontaneously on the inner experience of others who are unfortunate was positively related to prosocial behavior in boys and to affective empathy in both sexes.…

Notes that maps that have helped form worldviews of social workers and clients reflect ethnocentric biases that reinforce historic patterns of world dominance. Discusses ways for practitioners to recognize this subtle source of ethnocentric bias, which may affect their work with clients. Notes that understanding of these biases illuminates…

Examines elementary students' perspectives on the engagement potential of particular mathematical problems and students' views on classroom problem-solving activities in general. Nonroutine examples that focused on important reasoning processes and did not involve computation had the greatest engagement potential, whereas computational problems…

Asks how advisees and advisers view adviser empathy in terms of perspective taking, empathic concern, and communicative responsiveness. Examines advisee perceptions/evaluations and the relationship between adviser perceptions of adviser empathy and adviser perceptions/evaluations of communication behavior in advising interaction. Finds that…

Author shares his experiences as a community counselor with the use of stories to help clients gain new perspectives on their particular issues and ultimately transfer the stories' lessons into their own lives. Includes selections of stories that work to illustrate sample topics such as hope, values, and bitterness. (GCP)

Focuses on the beliefs and understandings of one of the academic tribes, adult/continuing/lifelong education. Considers what this group might have to say and share with another group on management learning. (Author/CCM)

Reports on interviews with mothers and their partners while in the Labor and Delivery units of two hospitals in Tennessee. Determined from the interviews that the perinatal period provides an opportunity for family life education that can help couples explore expectations for shared involvement in childbearing along with other parenting concerns.…

This study compared children (n=68) with either autism or general delay on false belief tasks and tasks to test for an understanding of interpretive diversity. Findings partially support the view that tasks of understanding interpretive diversity are more difficult than false belief tasks. Between-group differences in the consistency and quality…

Our work contributes to research on variation in role-taking by investigating changes in perceptions of role-taking ability over time as a result of exposure to situations and activities typically associated with others; that is, we investigate how "walking in others' shoes" contributes to individuals' perceptions of role-taking ability. Using a…