The work of Jean Piaget stresses the point that intellectual functioning and growth from one stage of cognitive development to the next depends more on the quality of one's experience than on exposure to factual knowledge. Piaget's theoretical model and its implications and applications for the classroom teacher are reviewed. (Editor/RK)

Motivation and affect have mostly been studied separately, but both research and practical experience suggest that they are reciprocal features of learning experiences and should be studied together. The present research examines the relationships among cognition, motivation and affect in fifth- and sixth-grade children during mathematics classes…

This paper presents two elements of a broader set of findings resulting from a qualitative doctoral dissertation. This research gives voice to the learning experiences of 21 diverse adult learners who participated in a community-based multicultural immersion program. Key perspectives of their learning experiences were drawn from two main themes:…

Universities today must balance the requirements of teaching with those of scholarship. The consensus that scholarship counts first and teaching comes second has lost its hold. The U.S. college and university today must assess what difference scholarship makes to teaching and what teaching means to scholarship. Scholarship should not detract from…

To gain information on how schools in the Southwestern region are implementing a new program, the staff of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) project undertook the development of a survey instrument. Based on the research on school change, the survey provides information to schools, districts, and state departments about the…

Teacher prompted his students to think inventively toward new methods of controlling paint on paper. (Author/RK)

When a bulldozer appeared outside the classroom window, this innovative teacher moved all the chairs over to the window and began an educational experience of interest to all involved. (GB)

A description of an elementary level ethnic studies program in the Richmond, Virginia, Public Schools. (HB)

Following a unit on black identity, students were subjected to varying degrees of discrimination through a role playing sequence. (JB)

A domed room, comparable to a planetarium, using multi screen projection of visual images as a primary mode of presentation, provides unique learning experiences that involve inquiry. (JB)

This paper has been an attempt to show what is involved in actually using two general principles of learning in the planning of a learning experience. (Author/RK)

A need for quality in instructional materials is cited, with the future role of teacher seen as a learning coach, an organizer, manager and creator of learning experiences. (Author/JB)

Describes early experience of learning through listening to foreign language broadcasts. (RS)

Learning is most effective to adults if the ideas presented are personally relevant. New experiences fit into existing frameworks. The teacher is more guide than information giver. (MS)

Discusses the cognitive consequences of education, and reviews evidence which supports the hypothesis that differences in the social organization of education promote differences in the organization of learning and thinking skills in the individual. Proposes that new accommodations are needed between school-based learning and learning experiences…