At two of the Smithsonian Institution's museums in Washington, D. C. special places have been designed for children to enjoy the rich experiences that works of art can provide and to investigate a room filled with touchable exhibits. (CS)

Author explored different methods people can use to pray and attempted to define the task of prayer. (RK)

Calls for learning-effective research to determine the degree of desired learning that results from the use of instructional strategies facilitated by instructional television (ITV) materials. (Author/ER)

Three experiments investigated the effect of various kinds of reflection (within-task and post-task reflection) on learning a process control task. Also, two ways of providing learners with alternative ideas about task behavior, exposure to other's ideas and providing hints for task solution, were examined. The task involved a simulated…

Synanon uses many of the same methods used in its drug rehabilitation program in its educational program which includes 230 children in its membership. The Synanon "indictment game" is one of the methods used. (JA)

Enjoyment is not a necessary condition of learning though it may be desirable to make our lessons as enjoyable as possible. But it would be a mistake to think that making them enjoyable insured that (a) learning or (b) education were taking place. (Author)

Author assess the behavioral objective oriented curriculum and offers an alternative, the Dewey model'', emphasizing inquiry. (SP)

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)