Policy makers use past experience and history to think about current and potential problems and to explain policies and problems to others. Decision makers may be overly influenced by significant personally-experienced events that loom so large in their eyes that details and related relevant information may pale in comparison. Deficiencies in…

Author considered that children and teachers in a school setting have differing individual spatial needs. (Editor/RK)

Author argued that in our efforts to understand the environment we should not neglect the technology which makes building possible. He noted that construction methods can give us information about culture and history. He proposed an intriguing way of teaching structural principles via symbols. (Editor/RK)

Presents a day care curriculum for infants and toddlers which is designed to provide maximum learning experiences and is based on Piaget's and Erickson's theories of infant development. (Author/ED)

Considered the development of La Guardia Community College, established under a mandate from the city of New York to be a cooperative education college becoming the first community college in the country fully committed to cooperative education. (Author/RK)

Article described the educational contributions made by Ralph Tyler in the 1920s and 1930s. (RK)

The author suggests that it is more useful to talk of educational situations, with the emphasis on teaching, rather than the unqualified term of learning situations. Educational situations require fairly specific learner/teacher goals, standards of attainment, and methods of learning actively involving the learner. (Author/EA)

The purpose of this article is to outline some of the characteristics of children's notions of physical causality and to relate this to how one might expect the typical five-year-old, eight-year-old, and twelve-year-old to approach a problem in science. (Author)

The "thorough and efficient" science program must involve all students with their minds and their hands in science activities that make sense to them. (Editor)

While visiting a living museum children can be made to awaken their senses and heighten their learning experiences. Zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens can offer such motivation. (RK)

Article examined the problem of deciding what kind of learning experiences could be structured that would tend to increase the student's level of performance in general education courses for students majoring in auto mechanics. (Author/RK)

The present investigation made the comparison between children's drawings published in 1897 with those of another generation - contemporary children's drawings - in attempting to determine whether learning or maturation are directly responsible for artistic development. (Author/RK)

Author, a famed anthroplogist, made this longitudinal study to try to show what has happened to one human scientist who has been deeply involved with educational theory all her life. (Author/RK)

Article evaluated mastery learning, a teaching strategy originating from behavior-oriented educational technology with objectives specified in behavioral terms. (Editor/RK)