Principals can provide overworked staff with some valuable assistance by tapping a frequently overlooked source--high school students. In 1989, a New York district created an innovative program called Students Assisting Students (SAS). These students volunteer as tutors in the schools they once attended. The program benefits all participants. (MLH)

Creative ways that tutors can develop learning partnerships with adult learners include the following: aim for reciprocity in the relationship (trading places); ground tutoring in the learners' experiences; and work at becoming a reflective learner. (JOW)

Argues for the value of humor in writing center instruction. Shows how writing center tutors can use humor effectively in tutoring settings. Relates personal experiences as a writing tutor in which humor proved useful and effective. (HB)

Provides a comprehensive bibliography of recent articles and monographs related to the general issues of writing centers. (HB)

States that much has been written about whether writing center tutors should be generalists or specialists. Suggests that these arguments should be restructured around tutor-training theory and its relationship to social constructionism. Seeks a middle ground between the generalist and specialist poles through training theory and pedagogy to…

Describes a case study of one college student's learning experiences as an adult literacy tutor in a community center of a low income housing development. Highlights the challenges faced by both learners and tutors in adult literacy education. (SR)

Reports on the development of a mathematics course in fractals and dynamic processes for volunteer students in the second phase of secondary education in the Netherlands. Presents findings on the correct way for teachers to coach students in investigations. (Author/MM)

The beliefs both that sentimental education is a vital part of moral education and that habituation is a vital part of sentimental education can be counted as being at the hard core of the Aristotelian tradition of moral thought and action. On the basis of an explanation of the defining characteristics of Aristotelian habituation, this paper…

The academic study of "local" history has emerged from two interconnected debates in the second half of the twentieth century. The first debate, that of validity, floods the pages of first, "The Amateur Historian," then, from 1968, "The Local Historian," the changing nomenclature of the journal itself reflecting new…

In this article, the author relates her experiences during her new-coaches training week in Critical Friends Group. The author relates that there was little coordination and camaraderie among the participants during the first day of the training but during the succeeding days, a group identity began to form. The author relates that the new-coaches…

This paper describes the rationale for, and the design, implementation and preliminary evaluation of a taxonomy to guide the grading and feedback of ePortfolio assessment of personal development planning (PDP) in a module where PDP is integrated into the curriculum. Conventional higher education assessment methods do not adequately address the…

This case study reports on the progress of Navon, a 13-year-old boy with prelingual deafness, over a 3-month period following exposure to Logo, a computer programming language that visualizes specific programming commands by means of a virtual drawing tool called the Turtle. Despite an almost complete lack of skills in spoken and sign language,…

The study sought to establish the level of students' self-assessment skill--particularly "inexperienced" students--and to examine the relationship between self-assessment skill and learning style, student perceptions of academic locus of control and academic self-efficacy. Students were asked to evaluate and provide estimated marks for their own…

This article reports a study of parents' management of the education of primary school-aged children in their care in remote and rural locations of Western Australia. It presents a theory of the ways in which these parents, in the role of home tutors, "manage" the schooling of their children in a distance education regime in isolated…

Landscape changes in Europe's rural areas seem to generate a more visible impact. This trend raises new questions on rural management and brings about a conflict between farmers' land-use patterns and public expectations, which are often exclusively based on esthetics. The aim of the SHRUB BATTLE board game is to help tutors make future rural…