Students briefly discuss their objections to traditional school practices and contrast these with the innovative Parkway Programs--a school without walls started in Philadelphia by John Bremer based on the notions of student decision-making and of the city as the campus." (Author/AK)

The students' first 3 weeks of college are spent becoming more familiar with one's self in the unfamiliar environment of America's wilderness areas. (NQ)

Explains film illiteracy", which the authors define as the inability to recognize familiar objects, people, places, and action when they are shown directly without contrivances on the screen", and discusses the need for direct instructions in film literacy. Appended are 16 references. (Author/AA)

This article contains responses from recent enrollees of one Employability Development Team of the Concentrated Employment Program to the question: What is your best or most important learning experience, and under what circumstances did it come about?" (Author)

Children learn better when they study one area in depth rather than when they flit from one activity to another. (CK)

Guidelines for the selection of appropriate educational media are presented, including a discussion of the role of technology in enhancing learning, and a consideration of the characteristics of various forms of learning resources. (SK)

An examination is made of the concept that teaching implies learning. (JD)

Explores the identity development experiences of master's-degree counselor education students. Grounded theory procedures generated a tentative substantive theory that conceptualized these experiences. The theory illustrated how counselors-in-training used a recycling identity formation process that involved conceptual and experiential learning…

Proposes a solution to the learning paradox (how learning develops from prior learning) that is based on the work of C. Peirce and J. Dewey. Ideas, as opposed to schemas or postmodernist discourse, are viewed as the real carriers of meaning. Abduction offers the best chance of coming to terms with the paradox. Contains 78 references. (Author/SLD)

Seven articles comment on the proposed resolution of the "learning paradox" of how people make meaning and learn from prior learning. The reviewers find much of merit in the proposed reliance on the work of J. Dewey and C. Peirce, but they criticize many aspects of the paper, especially its brief treatment of the learning paradox itself.…

Students participating in a learning community do report an understanding of and appreciation for connected and shared learning. More importantly, according to the qualitative evidence, shared learning is a pivotal antecedent to connected learning. (Author)

Explores the important role of chance in career experiences and the fact that career counseling is still perceived as a process designed to eliminate chance from career decision making. Challenges career counselors to adopt a counseling intervention that views unplanned events as both inevitable and desirable. (Author/GCP)

Digital texts are not new. In 1991, a videodisc-based program called Windows on Science became the first state-adopted electronic textbook in the United States. It was an interactive, multimedia-based program that enhanced the classroom learning experience with video and audio. Unfortunately, technology changed rapidly and videodisc players went…

In the present age, which is often signified as post-modern or knowledge-intensive, the calls for learning echo loud. Discussions of learning, as well as teaching, permeate almost all levels and arenas of our society, and have a sure place in every-day conversation as well as scientific debate. The concept of learning can be understood and…