The presentation is a brief and free paraphrase of a 1968 article by Thomas G. Saunders (in the American Universities Field Staff Report, West Coast South America Series, vol. 15 n1). The Freire Method makes literacy training a critical, active process through which habits of resignation are overcome. (Author)

In order to help high school students obtain a working knowledge of law, a course was designed at the William A. Wirt High School, in Gary, Indiana that provided not only an awareness of the law but also a positive view of law in general. (Author/RK)

Why have yearbook sales slumped in recent years? Several possible answers are explored here. The author suggests ways and gives examples of how the yearbook can be made more germane to its buyers, the students. (Editor)

Three child development specialists give their views on the major value-attributes that need to be nurtured in children to produce adults who continue to exhibit curious minds; and recommend books for teachers concerned about encouraging curiosity in children. (ED)

Described a program which will develop degree programs for adult students in three overlapping phases, following the pattern of development of the external degree in the United States. (Author/RK)

After decades of neglect adult literacy and numeracy (ALN) learning in Scotland has been accorded the prominence that it has always merited but seldom received. Understandings of the concept of literacies and what it means to be literate have similarly undergone significant change in the last few decades. This shift has entailed a recognition of…

Students in a senior level community health nursing course were required to complete an assignment and display their results in a poster session. The objective was to educate professional nurses to be prepared as presenters and viewers of poster sessions in order to publicize nursing activities. Using high risk groups in the community as the…

A classroom visit by an international visitor is potentially a unique educational experience. Students have an opportunity to: increase awareness of their own values and of their foundation in the sociocultural patterns of their natural family, community, and nation; increase capacity for empathetic interpersonal relations; and become aware of…

The blockbuilding, painting, and oral expressions of young children provide evidence of a natural tendency to symbolize experience and to use the symbolic elements of expressiveness, creativeness, and living form. Up to the present time, educators have not fully grasped the fact that the need to symbolize is at the base of all education. They…

Authors explored the characteristics of effective nonschool learning settings, such as a marine laboratory, a human-relations workshop, and classes in a state mental institution. They contended that school environments could be enriched by the incorporation into their programs of aspects of these stimulating field settings. (Editor/RK)

Discussed course offerings of the Learning Community of Princeton H. S., which attempted to involve both staff and students in learning experiences by working together as a community. (Author/RK)

Discusses the implications for small, liberal arts colleges of the new emphases on continuing and recurrent education, with special sections on programs at the College of New Rochelle in New York. (Author/PG)

Considered the development of inservice training and the role of the government in establishing it. This set of articles, concerned with developments over ten years or so, was offered as a perspective on the subject by authors with varying experience in the field. (Editor/RK)

Article explained some of the advantages of developing a school garden and how it can tie into the curriculum. (Author/RK)