This article focuses on student activity and how students experience learning. A teaching programme was both led and researched by the one teacher. The article describes a master's level teaching programme and presents the data collection strategies used by the teacher-researcher and presents learning viewed from the students' perspective. The…

This article analyzes major challenges facing health care today as a basis to suggest a new framework for the professional preparation of health care professions. The long term goal is to produce practitioners who can successfully address these challenges and engage in a complete reconstitution of the current health care system to produce a more…

Taking place in a context where national policy is concerned about Education for All (EFA), where the educational provision to satisfy political, economic and social demands for a changing world falls well below the minimal requirements, and where international organizations demand signs of more significant progress, this article presents in an…

This discussion paper considers the definitions and objectives of environmental education, and the role of the school subject areas in an interdisciplinary approach. Available from Government Printing Office, P. O. Box 203, North Melbourne 3051, Victoria, Australia. (Author)

Rising inflation affects school publications to such a degree that some administrators may be thinking of reducing the number of issues or, worse, discontinuing a publication. Before taking action detrimental to such a valuable learning activity, one should consider the viable alternatives presented here. (Editor)

Article considered a book which is, in a measure, a case study of a large Philadelphia high school spinning off some alternative units in an attempt to humanize learning for its predominantly black student population. (Author/RK)

This paper constituted a plea for educators to ensure that the distinction between familiarity with literature and experience of literature is made. It provided a five-part plan for teaching to elicit the experience of literature. (Author/RK)

Authors discussed how to achieve a successful and meaningful program as well as how to motivate creative expression in pantomime, art number and spelling games. (Author/RK)

The present paper was an attempt to look upon word meaning as a process occurring within the individual's cognitive functioning. (Author/RK)

An alternative view of learning and an alternative view of research on learning are described in this paper. Learning is seen as a change in the conception of some aspect of reality and it is argued that learning has to be described in terms of its content. This line of research is intended to represent the learner's perspective and the…

Students are said to learn from experience in outdoor education, yet what they say they learn is not always taken seriously. Foucault's work is used in this article to examine two "flippant" comments made by students. Starting with these comments leads to an analysis of how experiences, students and meaning making processes in outdoor…

Discussed the game-like atmosphere teachers might want to create for fruitful listening experiences as well as describing illustrative games that can be used for such purposes. (Author/RK)

Enquiry learning can produce impressive cognitive and affective outcomes. However, there are different types/levels of enquiry. This hierarchy can be used to assess the degree of enquiry of an activity, to suggest how the enquiry level of an activity might be adjusted, to design enquiry activities, and to better sequence enquiry activities during…

The gulf between the curriculum and the extracurriculum can be bridged by bringing academic life into the dormitory. (Editor)

Article described Empire State College's efforts to recognize college-level learning outside the classroom and to grant academic credit for students' achievement without regard to where or how it was gained. (Author/RK)