A list of books and articles, periodicals, centers, and clearinghouses dealing with educational alternatives. (JF)

Authors explore the feasibility of camping programs for incorporation into the state hospital system of Texas. (CB)

The Akron Neighborhood Faculty Program is described which provides a course on The Black Experience" for prospective teachers. (MB)

Describes a movement behavior program. Through touching, tumbling, jumping, and other basic movements -- all in interaction with other children and supportive adults -- the participants demonstrated a significant decrease in anxiety and an increased capacity to reveal their feelings during and immediately after the experimental program. (Author/JF)

Article suggests implications for the management of foreign and minority workers. (Author/MM)

Elementary school teachers need to evolve a science program which integrates the three theories of learning: namely, learning by conditioning, discovery, or equilibration. Opportunity for self-directed learning should be supplemented by introduction of new concepts. Science Curriculum Improvement Study materials are suggested as suitable examples…

The term surrogate experience" is a broad term that includes within its territory such events as role-taking, simulations, and academic games. (Authors)

Organizing content, structuring word lists, course outlines, curriculum guides, and chronological textbook composition are used as examples and students' rights to put things together for themselves is defended. (JB)

Objections are raised to individualized indoctrination" in which students are isolated while working with programed materials. (SP)

Argues that the disengagement of the school from social reality on one hand, and from the objectives and needs of the pupil on the other, are factors strongly preventing the forming of positive learning attitudes and thus essentially weakening the psychological conditions for life-long education. (RB)

In a conversation, well known architectural innovator in the area of playgrounds presents his views on one of education's most underestimated and most misunderstood facilities. (EA)

For the college classroom climate to be productive, there must be an interaction of the personality of the teacher with the personality of the students. (IR)