Airs pros and cons of direct method, grammar translation method, and audiolingual method in foreign language teaching. Suggests that the eclectic method which does not follow one principle, but combines three methods and follows psycholinguistic issues, is most effective. (DS)

Author's purpose is to contrast and compare Gagne's and Piaget's psychological theories and to derive theories of curriculum development from their psychological theories. (Author/CB)

Described is the psychology of learning followed at the Decroly School in Brussels, Belgium. (MM)

Paper delivered at a pre-convention session of the Sixth Annual TESOL Convention, February 26, 1972, Washington, D.C. (VM)

Author calls for well-controlled, longitudinal studies of several issues needing further investigation in beginning reading. (MB)

An attempt to provide a tentative set of categories for analysis and evaluation of the increasingly popular attempts to use space and time as educational tools. It has been based on the belief that the variable use of space and time does not in itself signal significant educational change or progress, rather, it is only by viewing the impact of…

Article concludes with emphasis on the necessity for physical education programs to be based on sound scientific evidence. (MB)

Most of the curricular arrangements and instructional patterns employed in contemporary schooling seems to stifle rather than facilitate children's natural creative way of learning. (Author)

Presents research which shows that under standardized conditions of free recall, subjects report arguments more consistent with their attitudes than inconsistent. (MB)