Experiential learning is integrated in an Open University distance learning course in two ways: (1) recognizing students' diversity and experience in the content and style of the course and (2) encouraging students to reflect on their experience of learning. (SK)

Discusses the college experience in terms of three educational models: the "faithful community" (with premodern suppositions), the "guild of inquirers" (with modern suppositions), and the "resource center" (with postmodern suppositions). Suggests a college's primary focus is an environment in which conditions for purposive action take precedence…

A language arts teacher at a California middle school describes an exercise he developed to help students understand disabilities through virtual, firsthand experience. As students simulate being blind, unable to walk, they learn how to adjust, innovate, compensate, cooperate, and empathize with one another. (MLH)

Educators should strive to demonstrate the beauty and wonder of mathematics against the students. The experiences of adult population with their teachers during school days are mentioned.

A high school teacher recounts his own literacy journey from a young child with an auditory perception problem, to a school-hating student, to a semi-literate Marine in Viet Nam, to a teacher of persons with disabilities. He notes that his literacy journey during the early years was characterized by immaturity, avoidance, and self doubt. He grew…

Considers the importance of internship programs for journalism students, particularly minority students, because it is often their first chance to work on a newspaper. (AEA)

Suggests that reading theorists who neglect to treat context frequently produce distorted views of how reading occurs. (MKM)

During the process of socialization into an academic discipline, the graduate student encounters two kinds of tacit knowledge: that which grows from long experience in the discipline and that generated by the students as they make sense of their graduate study experiences. Both are important and serve as guides for action. (MSE)

Profiles Earl English, a pioneer in scholastic journalism. Focuses on English's high school journalism experiences. (SR)

Offers a theoretical explanation of the student's experience of higher education by reframing the viewpoint from a focus on surface/strategic/deep approaches to learning to a focus on alienated or engaged experiences of learning. Focuses on alienation and offers seven different perspectives on how to understand this experience of higher education.…

Provides examples of conversations and reflective writing to demonstrate how adult literacy students can begin with past knowledge and grow through listening to one another, recognizing points of resistance, and sharing in the construction of meaning. Argues that mutual learning is enriched by reflecting on the relevance of the experience being…

Argues that the impact of client suicide on the student counselor potentially has severe and long-term consequences. Suggests that the integration of Kleespies' plan for supervision with Brown's recommendations regarding the larger administrative process provide a comprehensive and flexible framework for addressing the needs of students after…

Since opening in 1999, the art studio at the Northeast Center for Special Care (NCSC) serves as a reprieve from the tragedy of loss that pervades every corner of the facility. Working for over two decades with people who have a wide range of disabilities, artist Bill Richards creates a charmed space in the NCSC studio. The neighbors, as they are…

On April 13, 2004, the College of Education and Professional Studies held its 2nd annual college minority student discussion panel at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. The main purpose of the panel discussion was for undergraduate students from culturally diverse backgrounds to discuss the personal experiences they have had as a…

The current national political context has brought Islam (as both a practice and an identity) into the media forefront. The events of 9/11 and the resulting war in Iraq have sparked renewed interest in the religion of Islam and the life of Muslims. This context has made the discussion undertaken in this article of the issues faced by Muslim…