Presents six games (most for all ages) used in adventure and experiential settings. Includes target group, group size, time and space needs, activity level, overview, props, instructions, variations, and tips for processing the experience, where appropriate. The games are icebreakers, promote teamwork and social skills, or help groups to focus.…

A three-dimensional laser scanner can be used as a tool for design and problem solving in technology education. A hands-on experience can enhance learning by captivating students' interest and empowering them with creative tools. (Author/JOW)

Course objectives were to introduce students to the competencies required to practice pharmacy and to provide patient care. Students completed modules related to expiry dates; telephone reminder and call-back programs; refill histories; angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor use in heart failure; and population health targeted at…

Investigates the roots and branches of experiential learning. Uses some of the traditional philosophical roots of adult education, progressive, humanist, and radical, to explore the roots of experiential learning. Explores the branches by using the four-village model proposed by Weil and McGill (1989). (Author/YDS)

Collaborative inquiry is an effective strategy for facilitating experiential learning through the use of peer participation, multiple ways of knowing, and systematic validity processes for meaning making. (Contains 21 references.) (SK)

Thirteen collaborative inquiry groups pursued the impact of White hegemony on their lives. An infrastructure supporting multiple groups included community gatherings, reflection papers, and online communication. Participants reported changed beliefs and behavior and more effective communication with other White people about racism. (SK)

Insights from the articles in this issue highlight (1) the pivotal role of presentational knowing in collaborative inquiry; (2) personal development and action; (3) roles for adult educators in inquiry groups (full participant, external facilitator, multigroup coordinator); and (4) creation of supportive structures for collaborative inquiry.…

Describes the instituting of interview assignments in undergraduate sociology courses and how they are well suited for producing the primary benefits associated with experiential learning. Also discusses some pitfalls of this teaching method. (EV)

Defines integrative learning, a concept that can help create more potent learning environments. Suggests this type of learning can realize potential pedagogical innovations such as collaborative learning, service learning, learning communities, and residential learning. (Author/JDM)

Offers an overview of significant life experiences research as seen from a particular academic vantage point. (Author/CCM)

Action learning in the workplace occurs when decisions must be made quickly, relying on practical judgment. Just-in-time training, interpreted as "anticipative action," prepares learners to exercise inferential understanding amid "hot action" in the workplace. (Contains 17 references.) (SK)

Over the past decade, most American museum educators have adopted as their objective helping museum visitors "learn how to look." They have embraced various kinds of participatory and interactive learning programs, encouraging engagement with works of art in the museum gallery through a process of inquiry shared by visitors and their guides. The…

This paper explores counselling and psychotherapy as a form of learning. Previous experiences may create distortions in meaning-making perspectives, distortions that create templates for evaluating future experience. These templates act as barriers to being open to experience; thus there is an inability to learn from experience. The process of…

A relatively new movement in psychology, positive psychology, has many implications for the field of outdoor education. Positive psychology has the goal of fostering excellence through the understanding and enhancement of factors that lead to growth. It embraces the view that growth occurs when positive factors are present, as opposed to the…

This study of a young learner's scientific and artistic "sensibilities" in and about a beach place adds to the evidence base about learning in environmental education while contributing to discussions about "emerging genres" of enquiry. The study pays strong attention to the learner's quest for "coherence" in "coming to know" about the two "ways…