To insure the success of career education, all disciplines must pool their resources toward a common goal. The industrial arts teacher can act as an advisor to those instituting the "hands-on" classroom experience in free enterprise recommended to junior high teachers of all subjects. (Author/AJ)

In this paper, we discuss a reflexive teaching approach, which may make the field of Organisation Studies more permeable to alternative views and thus more responsive to the complexities of processes unfolding in organisations in the context of a rapidly changing world. We contend that reflection on lived experience complements perspectives that…

Parent ability to diagnose the cause of non-contingent crying in an infant was investigated through use of a new methodological instrument. Problems programmed on a microcomputer presented 25 information units leading to only one correct causal hypothesis about infant crying and 25 information units similarly structured about an adult woman's…

This paper pursues three themes for understanding the nature of teaching and learning: (1) the mechanisms involved in teaching and learning as they occur in their normal context; (2) the processes and effects of a change whereby teachers and students assume greater personal awareness; and (3) the processes for facilitating change. Discussion…

The use of learning groups in the introductory psychology classroom at the University of Minnesota, General College, is discussed. Learning groups are used to get students to work together on tasks that teach them concepts or skills. It allows an active discovery process to take place as students use their own and other's resources while working…

Assuming that computers will be part of programs for young children, this paper initially describes skills children exhibit in play at computers, provides a scenario of a child's first encounter with a computer, and offers a rationale for including computers in young children's programs. Subsequent material describes the LOGO computer language,…

Authors reported on their own professional development as teacher/designers and discussed the process of translating educational ideas into physical form (and, importantly, their work with the teachers who will use the spaces they have designed). (Editor/RK)

The Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey offers business education students an individualized shorthand instruction program designed for vocational skill development. (EA)

Concerned about the differences that sometime arise between teachers and administrators in implementing the curriculum, the author clarifies some educational and personal relationships between the two to promote a more effective instructional program for students. (Editor)

Accountability in elementary social studies should relate to our furnishing the necessary support materials for pupil investigation, and providing meaningful social studies topics from which students can make selections. (Author)

Computer Assisted Instruction appears to help Title 1 pupils in 32 Chicago schools make greater progress, and to enjoy the experience. (Editor)

A mountain park program for sixth-graders from Washington, D. C., is not only instructive but seems to kindle renewed zest for learning. (Editor)

Described Experience-based Career Education, a pilot project sponsored by the National Institute of Education which was started for secondary school students to provide them with direct learning experience in real occupational settings. (Author/RK)

A study of entering students at the Universityof Birmingham (England) afforded an opportunity to explore the learning situations experienced by those students in the sixth form. Interest in the investigation stemmed from the disorientation students felt during the change from one type of learning situation in secondary school to another type in…