The relationship between a hearing impaired boy with above average academic achievement and a learning disabled boy is discussed. Results showed that both children gained from the experience not only academically, but also in social development. (PHR)

Presents a systematic attempt to help counselors operate within the areas of transcendence and states of consciousness. Consciousness counseling recognizes that human experience includes the person and that it also goes beyond the self to include transpersonal experiences. Consciousness counseling recognizes that people experience many states of…

Shows how having students write journals about their learning experiences was an effective teaching technique in the primary grades. (RL)

Elementary students were asked to find 12 colors and 5 sounds in their immediate natural environment and to describe in writing where they saw each color in relationship to themselves. The writings formed a type of poetry which expressed involvement with and observation of the environment. (CM)

Provides practical suggestions for parents and other caregivers. (Author/MP)

The author describes her difficulties as an adult learner at age 37 in a dance class and relates her experience to the unrealized potential of adult education as an alternative to therapy and to her own work as a professor of adult education. (MF)

Preservice teacher interns learned from direct, first-hand practical experiences rather than just from theoretical ideas, the kinds of feelings a new and stressful situation may elicit. (NQ)

Expands on one aspect of the rationale for elementary school industrial arts described in the January 1975 issue of "Elements". Discusses some developments at the provincial level tracing the Integrated Practical Arts program, broader in concept than elementary industrial arts but including many similar features. (Author/RK)

Vocational instructors and administrators keep up to date on new jobs and equipment by working for brief periods in industry. (Author)

"Awareness" of drugs among rural elementary school students (N=53) was studied with a word-association test of drug slang and words with no drug connotations given to students randomly selected from each of the six grades. The study suggests rural students are not immune to influences of the drug culture. (Author)

Considers the implications that broadening the definition of learning would have for educators and educational technologists. This special issues addresses the task of redefining learning from a variety of perspectives. The authors draw on different frameworks of analysis, exploring what it means to be learning at levels ranging from the…

Guided by contextual and constructivist perspectives, this study situates museum-going in the everyday lives of children, exploring how children perceive their experiences in museums in relationship to the other places they visit. Children were divided in their designations of museums as fun, boring, or a combination of the two. (LZ)

Suggests that schools implementing a literature-based, holistic language arts philosophy must be ready to support it with inservice education. Describes program design, procedures to engage teacher interest, and inservice sessions that were part of a suburban Cleveland, Ohio school's program. Concludes that, if done properly, such programs enrich…

Discussion of educational systems design describes four systems levels that can be emphasized: learning experience, instructional, administration, and governance levels. Factors to be considered in selecting a focus level and the implications of focusing on the learning experience level are discussed; and a table comparing instructional and…

Outlines intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental benefits of the small-group wilderness experience. Discusses barriers to providing school children with wilderness and outdoor adventure experiences: concerns about possible litigation, lack of professional outdoor leadership, perceptions of the experience as a vacation from the classroom,…