Lists a number of people who were creative and some who were not. Their example may serve as a guide for students involved in creative effort. (RK)

Describes methods of organizing an interdisciplinary program designed to study the techniques of finding out" used in science, literature, language, humanities and the arts. Suggests possible topics that might serve as subjects for seminars and provides references that could support such studies. (AL)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of Science: A Process Approach with pre-school age children. Subjects were 145 children whose ages ranged from 3 to 5 years. The analyses included an evaluation of pupil achievement, and a rational examination, by the teachers, of the…

Presents an inventory of processes of scientific inquiry and describes its use in curriculum development and instructional planning. (AL)

True learning takes place from inquiry into all phenomena, not just from those explained by the standard instructional materials. (RA)

Explains a discovery activity using the possible positions of the faces of a cube when represented in two dimensions. Suggests rules which would determine which of the edges would connect if the drawing were folded to form the cube. (RS)

A human interest account of the discovery of a mathematical formula is given. (Author/MK)

Discusses an alternative adult learning theory--the "lived experience." This theory states that learning needs to develop out of the current experience of the learner and builds from it. The learner brings into learning the totality of his being. (CT)

The purpose of this paper is to open lines of thinking about discovery learning not tried before. This effort is a strident attempt to establish new insights and outlooks that will improve the language, theory, and practices connected with this teaching method. (Author/MK)

Presents an expanded model of counseling, which includes a stimulation phase, to provide for active counseling methods that affect client perceptual change. This actively involves the counselor and client in full exploration, culminating in discovery. Active stimulation leads to new awareness, enhanced by social influence to achieve new…

For the mathematics experience to be liberating, the curriculum must share how and why mathematical knowledge is developed, with special emphasis on its grounding in belief, intuition and subjectivity, and facilitate our understanding of the world in which we live and create and the beliefs we act upon. (Author)

Discussion of models for indexing and searching information resources on the Internet focuses on the results of a simple query on a number of existing search systems and on two proposed index metadata structures for indexing and supporting search and discovery: the Dublin Core Elements List and the Semantic Header. (52 references) (Author/LRW)