Examined the learning styles of undergraduate athletic trainers to determine their consistency in traditional classroom versus clinical settings. Students completed the Learning Styles Inventory twice, once focusing on learning new information in the classroom and once focusing on learning in the clinical setting. Learning styles shifted depending…

Discusses the cognitive and situative research approaches, identifying several points on which they agree (e.g., individual and social perspectives on activity are fundamental in education; learning can be general, and abstractions can be efficacious, but sometimes they are not; and situative and cognitive approaches can cast light on different…

Examines whether certain contextual conditions influence the effectiveness of HRD (human resource development) programs and activities, based on contingency theory. Discusses results from questionnaires completed by stakeholders of two types of HRD programs from companies in two economic sectors. (Author/LRW)

Presents a comparative study of the term "context" across three major research journals: "Research in the Teaching of English"; "Reading Research Quarterly"; and "Journal of Literacy Research." Shows that the most consistent finding reported across studies is that context makes a difference, but a clear understanding of what is meant by context…

Offers "framing questions" to help countries and communities create adaptable public policies related to adolescents and youth. Recommends principles for policy development, maintaining that social policy should focus on positive and nonacademic outcomes as well as negative outcomes and academic success, should be firmly connected to…

Draws on data from three Head Start programs to examine how "culture" influences program improvement. Shows how culture takes shape through dynamic interactions in particular contexts, constituting identities, structuring social relationships, and privileging particular forms of knowledge. Highlights the importance of illuminating forces…

Asserts that passion and context are central to effective legal education and that experiential learning is a superior method for providing them. Explains that experiential learning can be cost effective compared to alternatives. Provides concrete suggestions for how it can be incorporated into the traditional curriculum, thereby providing…

Describes an ecological expedition documenting the development of African American community leaders in Chicago, showing how a collaborative research process between a university and the Developing Communities Project enhanced the quality of the documentation. Discusses the role of metaphors, which elaborated shared meanings of expressed…

Investigated the stable and situational properties of African American racial identity using the Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity (MMRI). African American undergraduate students completed the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity, which assessed dimensions of the MMRI. African American racial identity had stable and situational…

Outlines the Cultural and Contextual Guide Process, a method that attempts to provide a way for counselors to integrate culture and context in functional ways into assessment and intervention practices. Provides a case study to exemplify the process. (Author/GCP)

Reviews literature on therapists' reactions to clients' traumatic material. Findings support anecdotal accounts by trauma therapists. Argues that empathetic engagement with trauma survivors is necessary for effective psychotherapeutic intervention. However, this intervention makes therapists vulnerable to the detrimental effects of vicarious…

Discusses the relationship between bilingualism and gender within a feminist poststructuralist framework. Suggests that all language contact phenomena, including bilingualism, acquire different meanings in different contexts and can be linked to gender only indirectly. (Author/VWL)

Presents a new dimension of lexical variation--contextual distinctiveness. CD is a corpus-derived summary measure of the frequency distribution of the contexts in which a word occurs, and it is naturally compatible with contextual theories of semantic representation and meaning. An experiment shows that CD is a better predictor of lexical decision…

Reflecting on the principle that every effective counseling intervention works to the extent that it incorporates sound learning principles, this article emphasizes intentional selection of intervention strategies with reference to four learning models. Three contexts-developmental, social, and spiritual-are described that require modification of…

This article investigates teaching the application of technical ideas by non-technical means, especially by using puzzles to engage students. After discussing the need to teach students to evaluate contexts in which decisions about computer security must be made, we suggest questions and scenarios drawn from political science, history, as well as…