Discusses the role of geography in achieving the objectives of environmental education, including environmental awareness, concern, and commitment. Strategies are suggested for teaching about environmental limits, links, complexity, and patterns. For journal availability, see SO 505 721. (Author/DB)

The operational philosophy of community education is based on the concept that learning is a lifelong process and that schools at all levels should help provide various kinds of learning experiences for community members of all ages. (JD)

The development of the appellate advocacy programs at a medium-sized law school with a limited budget is described. Discussed are prior experience with similar programs at Wake Forest, revision of the legal bibliography course, organization of the Moot Court Board and its programs, and future trend projections for the Board. (LBH)

Suggestions on how to apply mastery learning concepts to instructing high-risk college students are offered with examples from mathematics provided. Eighty-five specific guidelines from the Personalized Systematic Instruction Inventory (PSII) are included.

Results of this investigation indicate that both male and female, nondelayed children receiving the Developmental Activities Program gained more significantly in motor skills than did children receiving the regular motor program; delayed children failed to demonstrate significant gains. (JD)

Discusses data collection and presents data analysis of NAEP's (National Assessment of Educational Progress) career and occupational development (COD) assessment, designed to determine how knowledgeable young Americans are about the work of the world and how well developed their basic skills (needed to obtain almost any job) are. (SH) Aspect of…

This article examines the historical development of marathon encounter groups and provides speculation as to their future use. (YRJ)

The first article argues that using behavioral objectives for training rehabilitation counselors is an inadequate educational strategy for several reasons. It is followed by a response from several writers, and finally a reply by the original authors. (Author/BP)

Three specific skills are described that the novice psychiatric resident must begin to learn: interviewing techniques, self-observation, and empathy. Curriculum effective in accelerating the learning process, i.e., interpersonal process recall, is also discussed. (Author/LBH)

It is argued that the only form of career education is one in the liberal arts, because a liberal arts education uniquely equips a person for life. That education should be accompanied by the application of basic, general, or specialized skills. (LBH)

A review of the literature regarding the training of parents as language facilitators for young language-handicapped children includes a description of the University of South Carolina Parent Training Program, which offers short-term training in desirable interactive styles, elicitation of appropriate language, and language facilitative…

Proposes tools and methods for teachers and students to use in the classroom to organize and stimulate ideas, imagination, memory, improvisation, and writing. Sample outlines and grids serve as methods for helping learners understand specific concepts. (MSE)

Assigned 26 kindergarten children to either a sexual abuse prevention program which taught self-protective skills through modeling and active rehearsal (PM) or a program which taught the same skills by having children watch skills modeled by experimenter (SM). Results provide support for greater efficacy of PM relative to SM for learning of…

A file management computer program that allows secondary social studies students to store information on cards on a floppy disk and to retrieve all or parts of the data as needed is described. The program will help students develop information-processing skills in locating, organizing, interpreting, and presenting social data. (RM)