What do solitude experiences offer in this increasingly high-speed, technically dependent world? As this book inspiringly reveals, solo quests can provide powerful reconnection with the natural world, the true self, and the great mystery beyond. As Parker Palmer writes in "To Know as We Are Known," "Solitude calls us to confront…

The natural teaching method is active and student-centered, based on schema and constructivist theories, and informed by research in neuroplasticity. A schema is a mental picture or understanding of something we have learned. Humans can have knowledge only to the degree to which they have constructed schemas from learning experiences and practice.…

The Model of College Outcomes for Adults explains why adults might do as well as traditional students, despite limited participation and involvement in traditional residential learning experiences. The model's six components are prior experience and personal biographies; psychosocial and value orientation; adult cognition; life-world environment;…

African teachers, like their counterparts all over the world, have their problems. (Editor)

A teacher, who grew up in the fifties, relived his experiences as a student and a teacher while he reviewed the development of literature and its meaning for today's students. (RK)

Article presents an art program that helped students learn a technique and understand the patience and peace of another era. (Author/RK)

Program modifications guided by the emerging insights into developmental and experiential factors in children's lives seem even more urgent today, since political, economic and technical issues tend to be given major emphasis, with the needs of the children themselves all to frequently treated as an after-thought. (Author)

Author writes of young children in nursery school and the changes in their behavior during the school year. (Editor)

Authors summarize some simple, basic ways innovative teachers have sought to extend and unify learning environments for boys and girls in elementary schools. (Authors/CB)

Article suggests the development of learning experiences as a way to open levels of learning for all children. (Author/RK)

Describes an educational trip in a motor home in which study, educational tours, and living take place. Students are the main initiators of programs designed to stimulate the learning process and group living. (RK)

Presents techniques for evaluation of individual growth and development and a list of points for use as a check list to measure the extent to which evaluation is individualized in a given individualized curriculum. (Author/RK)

Suggests that the environment outside the school is now capable of taking over many of the school's classical functions, while educational functions traditionally carried on outside the school are now largely missing. (JF)

Author offers five principles to guide curriculum specialists in organizing their plans for sequencing language experiences in reading. (MB)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (New York, New York, 1969). (JM)