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Download full textHendee, John C.; Brown, Michael H. – 1987
This paper offers a conceptual model or theory that synthesizes previous research, personal experience, and years of dialogue with instructors of wilderness programs, and other wilderness users. The goals of this model are to create a useful tool to help practitioners improve their programs and train instructors, focus additional research, help…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Environmental Education, Models, Natural Resources
Brown, Michael H. – 1988
The Wilderness Vision Quest is an outdoor retreat which helps participants touch, explore, and develop important latent human resources such as imagination, intuition, creativity, inspiration, and insight. Through the careful and focused use of techniques such as deep relaxation, reflective writing, visualization, guided imagery, symbolic drawing,…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Environmental Education, Natural Resources, Outdoor Education
Berlin, Donna F. – 1987
To examine intra- and interhemispheric communication or the transfer of information within and between the cerebral hemispheres, 32 right-handed learning disabled children aged 8-10 years, 11-13 years, and 14-16 years were presented a tactile discrimination task. Fabrics of the same or different texture were presented to the same hand (uncrossed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Meyer, Donald J.; And Others – 1984
Based on the SEFAM (Supporting Extended Family Members) program, the manual is intended to help organize a program for fathers of handicapped young children. A program for fathers and infants focuses on unique father concerns and resources. The first chapter further explores reasons for father programs while the second describes program components…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Disabilities, Fathers, Group Discussion
Key, Mary Ritchie – 1975
Nonverbal communication is an important and little-understood aspect of human communication. This book deals primarily with two aspects of nonverbal communication: paralanguage and kinesics. "Paralanguage" includes vocalizations such as hissing, shushing, and whistling, as well as speech modifications such as quality of voice (sepulchral, whiny,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bibliographies, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Unruh, Glenys G.; Madeja, Stanley – Educ Leadership, 1969
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Development, Equal Education
Taylor, Sam – J Res Music Educ, 1969
Paper presented at the International Seminar on Experimental Research in Music Education (University of Reading, Reading, England, July 9-16, 1968).
Descriptors: Ability, Aptitude, Child Development, Cultural Enrichment
Lipsitt, Lewis P. – 1981
Implications of three basic facts about very young infants are delineated in this summary. Normally, human infants are capable of a wide range of functions, such as "appetitive responses" (e.g., the rooting reflex) and defensive maneuvers. They experience pleasure and feel pain. Additionally, they undergo a transition from subcortical to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Experience, Emotional Development, High Risk Persons
HURD, DONALD E. – 1967
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISUAL AND AUDITORY SINGULAR MODAL RESPONSES AND MODAL SHIFTING BEHAVIOR TO READING ACHIEVEMENT WITH CONTROL FOR SUCH VARIABLES AS INTELLIGENCE, AGE, SEX, AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS. SUBJECTS WERE 120 SECOND, FOURTH, AND SIXTH GRADERS FROM PEORIA, ILLINOIS, PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6
Lockette, Agnes – 1977
This paper stresses the essential role of concrete play experiences in the early childhood curriculum. The paper examines the value of play, shows how to facilitate language arts development through planned play activities, notes that play provides the early sensory experiences that are the foundations for language arts development, points out the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Concept Formation, Curriculum Design, Early Childhood Education
Ashbee, Barbara; And Others – 1973
Designed for instruction of emotionally handicapped children and youth, six articles deal with art concepts and activities relative to outdoor education. Presenting over 100 activity suggestions, the first article emphasizes art in nature and states seven objectives which point toward creative development of such concepts as color value, two…
Descriptors: Activities, Art Education, Color, Concept Formation
Haynes, Felicity – 1975
In the last few decades there has been a move in philosophy of education toward a concept of pragmatic rationality. This paper examines whether the move away from systematicity, fixed guiding principles or logical systems, makes this notion of pragmatic rationality so broad that it can encompass any procedure of selection which involves rules, no…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creative Thinking, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
Boeschen, John; And Others – 1975
This Science Study Aid (SSA), structured for grade levels 7-9, is based on work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) conducted at the Western Regional Research Center in Berkeley, California. It is concerned with food aroma, its intensity and character, and olfactory threshold determinations. The SSA provides…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach, Junior High Schools, Learning Activities
Williams, Clarence M., Ed.; Debes, John L., Ed. – 1970
The proceedings of the first national conference on visual literacy held in Rochester, New York (March 23-6, 1969) contain papers describing the concept of visual literacy (defined as vision competencies of integrating and interpreting sensory experiences fundamental to learning and communication). Related research is explored in areas such as…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Conference Reports, Perceptual Development, Sensory Experience
Brooks, B. Wayne
One major intent of learning in the outdoors is to integrate intellectual and emotional understanding. In this light, the outdoor education activities suggested in this document may be artificial unless they are incorporated within the child's discovery of his role in the total, natural scheme of things. The introductory section of the document…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Educational Needs, Environment, Facilities
