Good thinking can be placed within a descriptive framework which includes a state of doubt about what to do or believe; goal, possibilities, and evidence seeking; and evidence use. The framework is useful in describing all types of thinking, although the search process may differ in the degree of control the thinker has over his search. Examples…

School phobia is an irrational fear or anxiety about attending school. Definite distinctions can be made between the school phobic and the truant, both of whom miss school on a regular basis. It appears that the incidence of school phobia is evenly distributed between the sexes and among age levels from 5 through 15 years, and is not significantly…

Models of similarity have traditionally assumed that the similarity relation is symmetrical. However, when reversed, similarity statements frequently have different properties from those of the original. Previous attempts to account for the asymmetry of similarity have focused only on literal comparisons, resulting in a tendency to underestimate…

Author addressed a central task in the development of an interdisciplinary field of inquiry into manenvironment relations: namely, theory development. He decried the lack of comprehensive theoretical reasoning that has characterized environmental research and suggested directions for expanded conceptual work. (Editor/RK)

Inservice education is viewed as a human relations problem between the instructor and the adult student. The particular example given is hospital personnel-oriented. (AG)

Until it is possible to carry out programing, planning, and design to foster children's play, activity measures may provide a useful evaluative format for design paradigms concerned with facilitating children's motor, social, and explorative behaviors. (Author)

Educative style refers to the way individuals differ in their initiation, search for, absorption, synthesis, and critical appraisal of educative influences in their evnironment. (HMD)

The authors suggest that how a child learns is as important as what he learns. The school psychologist can help determine the most suitable methods of teaching for those students who are having difficulty learning, and pupil instruction can then be individualized. (HMV)

Described is the learning theory of Marc Gold as it has been applied to increasing the learning efficiency of 64 mentally handicapped adolescents. (DB)

Presents the opinion that the learning environment of recitation classes can be vastly improved if instructors pay attention to some basic learning principles. Summarizes these learning principles and presents a specific example of their application. (GS)

The effect of humor in the classroom was explored by comparing the performance of third and fifth grade students who worked on a humorous test with that of students who worked on a nonhumorous test. Humor depressed third graders' performance but had positive and negative effects on fifth graders' performance. (Author)

Details of an introductory course in structural theory are presented. (Author)

From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. Adapted from a longer essay, "Schooling and Education, published in the 1969 edition of "The Great Ideas Today.