Nearly every work of John Dewey's presupposes a well-thought-out, well-organized theory of the nature of consciousness. This paper sketches the development of Dewey's theory of consciousness. (MT)

A teacher can communicate love in the classroom through his attitude and the manner in which he responds to student needs. A teacher's behavior can either stimulate or smother a young person's interest in school. (CK)

A demonstration of the school lunch program (R through 6) as a learning experience when teachers and school food service workers joined forces. (RG)

This paper proposes that the practice of teaching is an interactional activity involving "handling" pupils on the basis of an organized learning experience. The teacher's expertise in handling, it is argued, stems primarily from an on-the-job accumulation of "contextual theory" which guides classroom interventions. (Author/CT)

A step-by-step system for learning to play the back wall in racquetball is presented including exercises for observing the motion of the ball, judging its movement, and practice at hitting it. (JMF)

There is something that draws all people to the sea and especially to the fertile estuaries that nuzzle up to its shores. An estuary serves as both a nursery and a grave for sea creatures. If life evolved from some primordial sea, it may well have been an estuary--a place where ocean and rivers meet and fresh and salty waters mingle in the…

The purpose of this study was to find out: (a) pupils' attitudes towards open-ended science investigations, and (b) the problems that pupils encounter when carrying out such investigations in groups. The study was conducted in a class of 39 primary 6 pupils of mixed ability who carried out four investigations. Data were based on pupils' responses…

The way people interact with knowledge has changed tremendously for today's society, in that the skills of information-management are required more than those for the retention of knowledge. This "knowledge society" (Ruschoff, in Mibler & Multhaup, 1999, p. 80) thus greatly supports the implementation of technology in the education sector due to…

This study investigates the case-based learning experience of 133 undergraduate veterinarian science students. Using qualitative methodologies from relational Student Learning Research, variation in the quality of the learning experience was identified, ranging from coherent, deep, quality experiences of the cases, to experiences that separated…