Argues that excellence in education arises from understanding and meeting the learning needs of students. Discusses a holistic view of school functioning in which staff work together to create a consistent learning environment by defining common fundamental beliefs about learning and the essential elements of teaching. 5 references. (SV)

A research program addressing the problem of providing protective workwear that is acceptable to workers is described. Several phases of two different projects within the program are outlined, emphasizing benefits of the interdisciplinary holistic approach to the problem that has been adopted by the research team. (Author)

Responding to Steven A. Stahl's critique of the author's reading style claims, this article cites four successful pilot programs using the Reading Style Inventory. All four schools demonstrated dramatic reading gains. Generally, holistic reading instruction methods appear to match most closely the reading styles of young children and poor readers.…

Describes an alternative, holistic vocabulary strategy for students with limited English proficiency that draws high-frequency words from a variety of literary publications, then recycles that vocabulary in reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities. (SR)

Phonics and other word analysis activities need to be placed in perspective. An effective approach is for readers first to read the whole text, then participate in teacher-directed and learner-independent word analysis, and then return to reading words in a holistic context to establish comprehension. (SK)

Argues that a holistic approach to defining quality is helpful to technical communicators, who often must ensure quality without knowing what is meant by quality in a given instance. Describes a holistic model of quality that includes four emphases: internal, external, subjective, and objective. Notes that the definition of quality differs…

Outlines basic assumptions and principles underlying adult education and describes today's challenges: maintaining democracy, technological changes, explosion of information, global competition/cooperation, environment, and universal human rights. Advocates a holistic world view of adult education. (SK)

Key challenges are (1) using forecasting and prediction; (2) inventing possible futures; (3) matching futuring techniques to different populations; (4) using a holistic approach; and (5) serving as a futures role model. (JOW)

Argues that the classroom is not a natural language-acquisition environment; therefore, holistic approaches (immersion, content-based instruction, etc.) produce linguistic dysfunctional bilinguals. The Two-Cone model of direct, focused, step-by-step language teaching, integration, and use is briefly described. (12 references) (GLR)

Discussion of working environments that enhance performance highlights a holistic planning model; activity-based versus organizational-based planning; private and collaborative spaces; worker involvement in the planning process; and measuring effectiveness versus efficiency. (LRW)

A model for teaching cultural awareness includes three environments that affect an entity such as a family: (1) macroenvironment (cultural, political, and economic systems); (2) intermediate environment (motivation, needs, values, roles, and resources); and (3) microenvironment--the means by which goals are achieved (structure, communication,…

Reviews the history of dualism, examining its implications for physical education. Discusses a nondualistic, embodied view of humans which calls for changes in the way the profession works with people and recommends integrative study and analysis for a more complete understanding of human movement. (SM)

Virtually all elements of human society are touched by technology. Students who are not educated in modern advances will be ill-prepared for the world of work in the twenty-first century. All educators must modify their curriculum to reflect advanced technology. (JOW)

This article argues that curriculum-based assessment and direct instruction are not models of assessment and instruction for human learning but isolated sets of measurement and control procedures. The paper advocates holistic understandings of assessment that directly emerge from human aspects of learning and teaching and from understandings of…

Comments on this issue's article by Ward, Vela, and Hass on children's category learning. Suggests that aspects of the authors' methodology may have led them to underestimate holistic processing. (PCB)