This computer-searchable database, available on diskette in DOS and Macintosh versions, contains descriptions of approximately 475 video and other media products related to special education of students with disabilities and/or giftedness. Most of the products listed are videotape recordings; other formats include audiocassettes, films,…

Using the collaborative efforts of a teacher educator and a classroom teacher, this study attempted to implement invitational education (a perceptually based, self-concept approach which is referred to as a theory of practice) in a special education classroom for six children with behavior problems. Four questions were used to systematically…

An undergraduate program oriented to developing multidisciplinary team competence in members of a variety of rehabilitation specialities is presented as an illustration of how such a model can be implemented. (Author)

The article treats two central doctrines of behaviorism, namely, peripheralism and associationism, as doctrines which place semantic and syntactical constraints on acceptable language for the discussion of human beings, and assesses the consequences of these doctrines for the description of educational goals and methods. (Author)

The manual, "You're the Tutor" presents plans and ideas for youth tutoring youth. Full page black and white pictures are used throughout the booklet. Ideas to go along with the pictures are given in large print. Usually one idea is given per page. Techniques tutors can use such as drawing, picture use, games and gimmicks; puppets, trips, writing,…

This booklet presents an interdisciplinary approach to environmental education. Part 1 concerns environmental study areas. Emphasis is placed on defining environmental study areas, site selection and program planning, and preparing to use the environmental study area. Part II presents instructional activities based on the "strand" approach. This…

This paper uses the infectious disease model as an approach to the prevention of narcotic or poly drug abuse. It lists and discusses productive and counterproductive educational techniques on the basis of research findings and international reports on the outcomes of effective and counterproductive programs. (Author)

The history of the ecological model, which views the handicapped child and special education intervention in the context of intricate relationships, is reviewed. (DB)

Sees an overriding tendency in teaching and in academic writing to emphasize analysis over celebration, and thus to rush to judgment. Sees celebration as foundational to English education, the embodiment of the lived experience of teaching. Suggests that what moves teachers is not sermons disguised as analysis, but the sharing and testing of…

Explores the use of autobiography as a tool for increasing student participation, uncovering student attitudes and values, and as a source of examples for lectures and class discussion. Concludes that information gathered can be used to alert students to potential problems of using summary statistics and nonrepresentative samples when generalizing…

The various resources used by the students enrolled in the School of Educational Change and Development at the University of Northern Colorado is reported in tabular form. (HMD)

Two Chinese-American educators who separately toured China report on teaching practices in that country. (Editors/JA)

In view of the sixteen-year tenure (1933-1949) at Black Mountain College of Josef Albers, a former Bauhaus Master, and his wife, Anni, a Bauhaus graduate and teacher, exploration of the influence of the Bauhaus on this small, progressive, art-centered college in the mountains of North Carolina is warrented. (Author)

It is suggested that teachers may indoctrinate while they educate by reifying the rules which govern social relationship and implicitly denying the true negotiational basis of the relationship between teacher and taught, superior and subordinate, and government and governed. (Editor)