A program established in Georgia in 1968 offers education students an early, firsthand experience with public school students and lists desired objectives. (SK)

As the children of Belfast return to school, this report focuses on a project designed to help teenage pupils from the city's Catholic and Protestant communities. (Editor/RK)

Reports on nine issues that the National Society for the Study of Education agreed were crucial to education today and should be included in their yearbook on secondary education. Some of the conclusions of the yearbooks authors were also presented. (Editor/RK)

The present study explored the feasibility of teaching self-disclosure skills in an undergraduate program in teacher education. The experimental group who had received self-disclosure training, were significantly more willing to be self-disclosing than were the control groups. There were no sex differences. (NG)

Described is a taxonomy for determining the quality and extent of learning activity going on in a classroom at a given time. Research findings indicate that teachers should always stay within the frame of reference of pupils and encourage them to reflect at a deeper level on what they already know. (Author/DB)

Many teacher educators believe that the intern teacher learns best while he teaches and that the best learning experiences are provided when teaching practices and educational theory are experienced concurrently. (JD)

Education is a lifetime process--formal, organized, and school-based in the early years of life, and less formal and non-school-based in later years. (MM)

Describes a school-based project which attempts to break down the barriers between art, design and environmental education. (Editor/RK)

Looks at the implications of some striking new research on how children become successful readers. (Editor)

Author looks at the question of discipline after visiting some English and American schools. (Editor/RK)

The 2005 National Adult Learners Satisfaction-Priorities Report presents the responses to the Adult Learner Inventory (ALI) of 20,466 students from 45 institutions, including four-year private and public, and two-year community colleges. The results include adult learner responses over a three-year time period, from 2002 through 2005. Highlights…

The importance of personal experiences of a researcher that are "outside" of the research domain in dealing with the researcher's object of study is explored. It is equally true that research questions can also affect how one understands or experiences topical issues in a later personal experience. The researcher's personal experience…

This conference presentation describes how students develop the cognitive processes through which they acquire knowledge from their classroom experiences. The data were taken from five studies of individual students' classroom experience and its relationship to the learning of curriculum content in typical science and social studies units in the…

This paper applies concepts from intercultural communication theory, adult learning theory, and traditional Native American medicine to a specific learning experience for Native Americans. The background is an educational opportunity offered by the Indian Health Services Bureau to tribe members to become employed on their reservations as Health…

A study, begun in 1996, was designed to examine policy regarding implementing curriculum reform across the nation at the state, district, and school levels. This report presents findings from phase two of the three-phase research project. The second and third phases of the research project focus, respectively, on district- and school-level efforts…