The classroom teacher, regardless of the teaching area, can utilize debate as a device to help the student achieve objectives such as critical thinking, problem solving, the enhancing of self-concept and the art of communicating. (Author/CB)

Suggests that in light of the trend towards becoming a service-dominated economy, learning should be self-directed, giving students and their community a role in the school. (JF)

Suggests that the educational system be changed so that the task of learning becomes a common one. The problem, the author observes, is to reorganize the social structure of the school so that teachers and students can belong to the same group, with an identity of interest, even if they have different roles within its framework. (JF)

The office model, a plan to emulate actual office practices, is an effective method of bridging the gap between learning the skills in office education and applying them to the world of work. (NQ)

The modified text of a speech given at McGill University, Montreal, May, 1972, this paper emphasizes that education is for all of life and that a learning system does exist that includes but goes far beyond the bounds of a school system, as well as a learning force coterminous with the number of active learners in society. (Author/JB)

A high school teacher describes the learning that occurred when she and a group of bright students went on a 10-day snake hunting trip to the South Carolina swamps. (SP)

Twelve women in an adult creative writing class offered by Spokane, Washington, Community College offer a collective story about the college and their experience in returning to the classroom. (DS)

Piagetian principles are illustrated with examples from the preschool classroom; authors conclude that teachers should stand back awhile and watch the children do their own learning.'' (Author/SP)

In a situation where some participants in an organization are there to learn often the educational goals come last. In the meat cutting trade the apprentice learns slowly and with little system of instruction, with variables such as location and size of market determining the effectiveness of instruction. (JB)

Contemporary mass-producers possess a job-related sense of individuality, developed by learning to do it their way'' after watching other do the same task. (JB)

Author discusses the 12 basic and rather fundamental principles underlying newer teaching accountability concepts. (Author/MB)

Relates the experiences of a second grade teacher conducting a field trip to a pioneer cabin in Arches National Monument, Moab, Utah. Children participate in activities characteristic of that period. (BL)

Emphasizes the importance of spontaneous play for growth in cognition and social values. The author specifically discusses finger painting, water, blocks and dramatic play. (AJ)

Shows that, contrary to Piagetian Theory, formal thought in a variety of subject matters is not possible until sufficient requisite concrete background experience in each content area involved has been attained. (MH)