Explores children's books that serve as bridges for readers: bridges across places, time periods, cultures, generations, belief systems, and forms of expression. Annotates 31 books. (PM)

Based on the idea that learning a language is much like learning a role, not limited to simple memorization of a grammar or a script, a summer program in theater in Nancy (France) offers second-language students an opportunity to select a text and mount a theatrical production in French. (MSE)

Discusses the act of "talking to oneself" as an important component of learning and of seeking balance, direction, and meaning in life. Discusses what a journal is, cognitive view of learning from class journal, a "depth psychology" view, and applications in classroom. Concludes that journals are valuable educational tools. (Author/ABL)

Educators need to expand their ideas concerning acceptable ways to express knowledge. By restricting students to traditional ways of expression and evaluation, teachers may be preventing them from fully exploring and displaying their knowledge. Students' artwork can provide teachers with an additional way to evaluate learners' understandings of…

The study compared the nonverbal emotional expressions of five young children (ages three through five) with autism and five typical children. Although frequency of emotional displays was similar in both groups, children with autism displayed happy, sad, and angry faces during incongruent contextual events. (Author/DB)

Librarians' unfortunate fixation on image as a defining generational characteristic also makes them just as guilty of promoting misconceptions as nonlibrarians. Can the profession stand another article in the general press that trumpets the amazing new discovery that librarians can be young, trendy, stylish? The level of our colleagues'…

This study investigated the development and validation of a 32-item scale that measures "Internet-Savviness" (IS). Relationships between this multidimensional construct and other primary variables of interest including age, gender, Internet access, Internet location, and Internet activities were explored. The sample population consisted of 241…

This volume contains a compendium of the work of Rawley Silver. A founding member of the American Art Therapy Association, Silver is both an artist and a researcher; she is the originator of the Silver Drawing Test (SDT). In Part 1, nine studies in the area of "Hearing Impairments and Language Disorders" include three studies on art…

Discusses the problems of growing old in American and suggests some solutions. (PB)

Fictional reconstruction of the anguish a simple assignment can cause a student. (JH)

DELINQUENCY SHOULD BE DISTINGUISHED FROM "SILLY PRANKS" AND JUVENILE CRIMES. COMMONSENSE THEORIES DO NOT PROVIDE ADEQUATE ANALYSIS OF DELINQUENT CHILDREN. NEITHER THE SEVERITY OF A YOUTH'S OFFENSE NOR HIS BEHAVIOR WHEN CAPTURED, PUNISHED, OR CORRECTED IS A SAFE SIGN OF THE SEVERITY OF THE DELINQUENT PROBLEM INVOLVED. EARLY DETECTION OF DELINQUENCY…

TWO MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE TALENT IN THE FOURTH GRADE WERE CONSIDERED--THE NEED TO OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES WHICH TEACHERS EXPERIENCE IN CREATIVE GUIDANCE, AND THE NEED TO DEVELOP WAYS OF COUNTERACTING A SLUMP IN CREATIVE THINKING. EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS SHOWED STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT GAINS ON NONVERBAL…

One of the claimed benefits of Transcendental Meditation is increased creativity, although the literature neither supports nor negates such a claim. Four groups of 35 subjects each were studied over a six-month period and administered a battery of five creativity measures, both before and after the study period. One group of adults was enrolled in…