Discusses John Dewey's views on the meaning and nature of a psychology of human development. Focuses on his early commitment to idealistic philosophy, discovery of social psychology, and consummate interest in education. Dewey proposed that psychology could promote human development and social progress by elucidating mechanisms for realizing…

Discusses how the inner experience of the nonachieving student alienates and confuses academics, who perceive them as "other" similarly to anthropologist's view of natives in distant cultures. Maintains that, to reach such students, teachers must learn from them about their language and values and share authority, authorship, and authenticity with…

Describes the easy collection procedures and classroom uses of live planarians. Suggests that the use of live animals in the classroom will allow students to observe different biological processes exhibited by living organisms. (ZWH)

Discusses the role that feminist issues played in a summer institute at the Literature Institute for Teachers and the role of feminist theory in teacher education. Shares thoughts about the role of feminist theory in the classroom. (MG)

Describes a study that investigated the role of the laboratory as the source of production and the target of citation practices within the specialty of human-eyeblink conditioning. Lotka's law is discussed, and the correlation between the laboratory's lifetime productivity and citation frequency is examined. (15 references) (LRW)

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)

Describes various writing center issues and how they were foregrounded through the institution of a campuswide portfolio evaluation in the first-year writing program at the University of Southern California in fall of 1990. Shows the effect of the adoption of portfolio evaluation on the writing center's activities. (HB)

Applies a theory of role conflict to the position of peer tutor. Argues that tutors' roles are more complex and problematic than those of many other occupations but that role conflict theory can be helpful in discovering constructive ways to deal with tutorial role ambiguity and conflict. (RS)

Outlines a training model designed to help senior technologists ensure that the newly hired technologists in the clinical molecular pathology laboratory achieve the minimum level of knowledge needed to perform and progress on the job. (Author)

Describes a 13-week, third-year course in Environmental Planning and Management consisting of a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshop/laboratory sessions and field-based projects. Student objectives include awareness of the need for and complexities of environmental concerns; critiques of work done by environmental agencies and consultants; and…

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

Offers a unit of laboratory instruction for a general technology class that looks at ergonomics--the engineering science that seeks to prevent disorders caused by uncomfortable or stressful working conditions. The activity involves the measurement of body motions. (JOW)

Explains the procedures used to determine the regulatory properties of yeast pyruvate kinase. Involves a partial purification using PEG precipitation that can be done in one laboratory period with simple equipment. (DDR)

Provides a synthesis of what some of the popular and scholarly literature says about spirit. Narrates a writing-center story in which the writer's text served as a vehicle for a transformation of the people involved. Follows this with an analysis of the experience grounded in the literature on writing and spirit. (SR)

Describes a unit of laboratory work which was unusual in that the teacher's purpose was to develop students' understanding of the way scientific facts are established with little expectation that they would understand the science content involved in the experiments. The unit was very successful from both a cognitive and affective perspective.…