Literature circles generally involve four or five students who are actively engaged in cooperative learning. Learners choose a library book to read based on interest. The same titled paperback might be discussed by participants in the literature circle. Alternative suggestions for literature circles include choosing a library book on a similar…

Online computer conferences used to assist distance learning courses often fail because the moderator-usually the instructor responsible for the conference-is not properly trained in techniques that build a community of learners. It has often been assumed that the skills required to create a vibrant classroom discussion translate easily to an…

These classroom guides, designed to accompany the daily CNN (Cable News Network) Newsroom broadcasts for the month of March 2002, provide program rundowns, suggestions for class activities and discussion, student handouts, and a list of related news terms. Lead stories include: the U.S. expands the War on Terrorism into the Republic of Georgia and…

Videotaped discussions were utilized to enhance communication between students and teachers. (RK)

Board members of Instructor have an informal discussion about important educational issues that affect each child's learning proficiency. (Author/RK)

This paper describes procedures used with a group fo ten-year-old children in an inner-city classroom in an attempt to discover whether the children themselves could identify their needs as members of a discussion group. (Author)

The growth of racism within secondary educational institutions is probably the single most important area that school administrators, teachers, students, and parents must recognize, come to terms with, and initiate positive action against if they wish to live in a free world. (Author)

This article illustrates the problems existing in the relationships between white social workers and black children clients. (AJ)

A psychologist suggests that in the coming years encounter groups and other techniques of the human potential movement will penetrate all aspects of our culture, as it allows people to get more in touch with their subjective inner experiences and to learn ways to communicate their experiences to others. (Author)

Education majors are shown how to utilize library resources. (MF)

Personal accounts of innovative social arrangements in two communes focus on community responsibility for child rearing. (NH)

Axiology is a branch of philosophy devoted to worth." A unit of study is described utilizing group discussion in the developing of awareness in students of the value of scientific theories and their own standards of judgement as well as the standards of others. (Author/TS)