A travel training program in which college volunteers teach handicapped pupils to use public transportation decreases transportation costs and increases the students' independence. (CL)

Vaccine-preventable diseases continue to have an adverse impact on health on college campuses. Ways to eliminate measles and rubella from campus, the importance of accurate immunization records, the need to educate high-risk students about hepatitis B, and the immunization requirements of students traveling abroad are discussed. (Author/MT)

Discusses the objectives, characteristics, and outcomes associated with a joint "sociology-urban studies, travel-study, minicourse program." Describes how students in a four-day, two-credit-hour course travel to cities such as Washington, DC and Toronto to be exposed to different cultures, organizational structures, and social arrangements.…

The article describes a research/study tour of 25 American teachers of the gifted to London in terms of Benjaman Bloom's taxonomic levels including knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. (DB)

Explores the mythic and fairy tale parallels in Cynthia Voigt's "The Homecoming." (HOD)

The article describes adaptive techniques used to evaluate and teach mobility to the physically handicapped blind individual, with emphasis on users of wheelchairs and walkers. The use of electronic travel aids is discussed, and a system is designed by the authors to mount the Mowat Sensor to a walker is described. (Author/CL)

A group of high school students, teachers, and administrators spent one month in China. Their itinerary included two weeks of intensive study at the Beijing Teachers College and two weeks of travel to other cities in China. The purpose, itinerary, and results of the trip are discussed. (RM)

A game using student observational skills to match tourist "types" with comments, postcards, hotel and travel advertisements, souvenirs, guidebooks and sources of travel information, photos, travel styles, and tourist attractions is outlined and illustrated. (MSE)

Children learn while they travel when they take a portable study kit with them. The suggested travel tote requires children to keep a daily journal, trace the trip on a map, and collect souvenirs. Examples are offered of this multidisciplinary approach that helps children learn outside the school. (DF)

Virginia Hoge Mead, who went to China in 1982 to introduce Dalcroze eurhythmics, is interviewed. Her Chinese students were highly prepared musically but did not move easily, and the focus was on overcoming their inhibitions. Dalcroze techniques were enthusiastically welcomed. (CS)

This journal is a collaborative effort of the 1998 Fulbright-Hays Summer Abroad Program in Morocco. Each participant volunteered to record one, two, or more days of their seminar abroad in Morocco, and report on activities/lectures/travels/observations. It was hoped that this journal would provide a multi-voiced and multi-perspective document of…

The services and concessions available to visually handicapped owners of guide dogs in the United Kingdom are described in relation to veterinary, transportation, commercial, and state sectors; facilities and allowances provided by the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and financial implications. (Author/MC)

The sequential orientation and mobility curriculum of the Iowa Braille and Sightsaving School offers visually handicapped students 127 lessons in five flexibly structured units comprising indoor, campus, residential, basic business, and advanced travel units. (MC)

Suggestions for camping out and touring Europe with student groups. (DS)