Based on paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 7, 1968.

A GENERAL SURVEY OF LITERATURE IN THE AREA OF REINFORCEMENT WAS MADE DURING THIS STUDY. THE REPORT SUMMARIZED RESEARCH WHICH HAS BEEN CONDUCTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORITIES IN THE FIELD. THE SUBJECT OF REINFORCEMENT WAS DIVIDED INTO--(1) THE PROBLEM OF DEFINING REINFORCEMENT, (2) POSITIVE REINFORCING STIMULI, CONSUMABLES, (3) POSITIVE REINFORCING…

"Critique" is the term applied to learning from direct experience. Critiqube, a model of critique, is discussed according to its dimensions; the attributes of direct experience (people, process, procedure, product, and performance); critique techniques (inspection, simulation, participant-observation, and strategic assessment); and management…

A university English instructor, frustrated at being unable to stimulate his students to construe the sense of poems and to limit their strong subjectivity, tried using extracurricular reading as a spur toward a more honest and attentive interpretation of poetry. His experiment produced successful and interesting results. (RK)

Work can be conceived as a significant aspect of everyday school, home, and community life, giving it a "here and now" character. These life experiences provide a structure for the introduction of concepts about work, work roles, and work functions as an integral part of the teaching-learning process. (Author)

The adversary system is a bad bargain for everybody, these authors believe, since insecurity and fear are the results. They describe an approach they found successful and recommend that teachers and students also use it. (Editor)

A theory of instruction can be said to have succeeded when the applied technology it has generated can be used with consistency and is comprehensive and relevant to the range of types of learning and of types of learners with which education must deal. It is only when revision is required simply because the value or levels of appropriately…

The author, a poet, publisher, and biographer of Wilfred Owen, remembers how he was first attracted to words. (Editor/RK)

Two groups of students at the University of New Hampshire attended 6 weekly class meetings on campus and 3 overnight weekend sessions in the White Mountains to study the environment. (NQ)

If the school store carries suitable product lines, presents them attractively, accommodates the flow of customers, and brings in sufficient sales, it can offer many--if not more--of the learning experiences offered by a good cooperative work station as it relates store operations, merchandising, sales promotion, and financial control. (Author/AG)

The UNESCO report Learning to Be: The World of Education Today and Tomorrow'' stressed two fundamental concepts: lifelong education and the educational community. (Author/PG)

Description of a two-day fair at a free school in California. (SP)

Describes the learning center as a concept which supports and implements learning events at all levels of training and education. (Editor)

To encourage more communication among students, faculty, and the administration, the University of Minnesota has been experimenting with various types of weekend retreats for undergraduates and members of the faculty and administration. (CK)