The process of learning art is related to experience and to the growth of understanding and not solely to the development of technique. Experience of the world, and of nature, thus becomes the source of painting. (Author/CMG)

Examines the personal writing method proposed by Ken Macrorie and explains how it can help students conceptualize and form generalizations that extend their personal reminiscences into more objective expository writing. (HTH)

Reviews (1) how vocational agriculture provides supervised occupational experience, (2) attitudes toward experiential programs, and (3) the future of experiential programs. (LRA)

John Gardner reflects on everything from current efforts to improve the first-year experience to the assessment movement, student expectations of college, professional preparation for student affairs, and more. (Author)

A fair amount of what we know about college students and how they are affected by their college experience has been learned from the data gathered in the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP). In this article, CIRP's founder surveys the past, present, and future of the thirty-seven-year-old program. (Contains 12 references.) (GCP)

When serving special needs children under the age of 24 months, two divergent curricular approaches should be fused: a narrow curriculum focusing educational stimulation on the area of risk or disability, and a broad curriculum supporting the child's general humanity by making available a comprehensive array of experiences. (Author/JDD)

Argues that to inspire journalism students, teachers should write for the local newspaper or college newspaper. States that by reading stories, students see how news, features, sports, and columns are written journalistically. Provides a list of five reasons to write for the local newspaper. (PA)

Selecting an undergraduate human-services internship can appear straightforward, depending on availability, interests, and recommendations. Students can become enthralled with the prospect, however, and overlook the intricacies and ramifications of their decision. This article identifies preplacement issues to be considered by students to avoid…

The student experience involves displacement of the self into an epistemological framework, beginning a trajectory that can either rise with increased confidence, or fall with diminished interest. The learner becomes a new, authentic self through the process of becoming a student. (SK)

Crafting experiences, such as paddle making, fit in with the ideals and goals of outdoor and experiential education and can be linked to environmental education by creating environmental consciousness. Crafting a canoe paddle from harvested materials directly engages students with the land and can lead to reflection on material objects, patterns…

Assessment of learning is critical to the learners, teachers, and designers of learning environments. Current assessment techniques in web-based distance learning apply age-old techniques to a new medium and are not adequate for web-based distance learning environments (WBDLE). The goals of this article are to extend existing critiques of…

Students in college writing courses need to understand world issues, including the oppressive effects of the global economy. But their teachers need to give them a sense of agency and authority, rather than simply telling them what political positions to take. One example of a writing assignment that might engage as well as inform students…

One of the most persistent inequities in U.S. education is the gap in math achievement along income and race lines. Yet some secondary schools beat the odds, producing consistently strong math performance with students who likely would fail in traditional settings. This report advocates that the math achievement gap is not the result of poor and…

Argues that the power of language and the possibility of the freshman English movement is the power of coming into language aware of its problems, but empowered, too, to claim its recreative capacity. (HOD)

The author, a teacher at Roosevelt Junior High/Middle School in Eugene, Oregon, has created and taught a variety of elective classes. Each incorporated reading, writing skills, oral presentations, research reports, and specific educational goals. Of these classes, Storytelling became his favorite, because those who became tellers learn skills they…