Students worked together towards a common goal, sharing responsibilities and contributing their talents accordingly. At the same time they developed an interest in contemporary society while learning that art can be relevant to everyday life. (Author/RK)

Investigates the status, rationale and effectiveness of simulation and game exercises and the extent to which they are used in the classroom. (MH)

The choice of what to include in educational software is an issue with which instructional designers are regularly concerned. Multimedia capacity, standard on today's desktop computers, gives designers the opportunity to provide learners a more exciting learning experience than simply looking, clicking, and then looking some more. One feature that…

From an educational perspective, involving students in school design provides a rich learning experience. Students must reflect on the world around them and develop practical solutions to everyday problems. Design-based activities make them think about the learning environment, prompting them to consider where and why they learn best. Such…

We extend an earlier study on the role of memorising in learning science with three case studies on mathematicians' experiences as learners of mathematics and their views on memorising in students' learning. Each report reflects a different view of memorising--from a minimal role in learning mathematics, to a "stepping stone" role to memorising as…

Community college students (unless cognitively or emotionally impaired) have an innate learning system or process which makes it possible to do abstract and critical thinking in all their classes. Over an 8-year period, informal research has been conducted with approximately 1,000 low- and high-achieving students, and faculty in classrooms,…

Article traced the learning experiences appropriate to aesthetic education. (RK)

Suggested a positive approach for teachers in confronting the problems of students afflicted with epilepsy. (RK)

Author argues that the most important thing you can teach students is what they know already. With Socrates, he believes that maieutic, "midwifery," has an essential place in good teaching. (Editor/RK)

The experience of an extended urban field study project proved an effective method for stimulating students' appetites for discovery and for didactic learning as well. (Author/KM)

Discusses the author's own experience with learning, teaching, and research study in chemistry. Indicates that one should take his working experience as a learning process to alleviate the reactive character of his earlier strongly held views. (CC)

Discusses the experiences of a blind student in becoming a teacher. (RK)

Although the principal virtue of the study group is its collective effort, it is flexible enough to provide help where it is needed in individual skill areas or to foster individual exploration within the over-all subject area. (Author)

Instructional objectives should delineate specifically what the student is expected to do or know in terms of the student's ability to demonstrate his skill or knowledge. The objectives presented have increased the learning efficiency of students during their nights on obstectric call. (Author/PG)

Home, neighborhood, and community are critically examined from the perspective of a young child, and some hard questions are posed as to the value structures that various environments implicitly reinforce. (CS)