This article examines how adults' conditioned responses to objects restrict the range and nature of their perceptions. Maintains that art can transform the experience of context so that the personal and particular reactions can be reclaimed. (JDH)

The Ohio State University artist-in-the-schools program was developed to introduce ideas about dance as an art form. Dance experiences allow the child to view the aesthetic dimension of movement and heighten kinesthetic awareness and bodily intelligence. (DF)

Defines the form, subject, structure, language, and feeling of haiku, a Japanes verse form in which a short poem captures the essence of natural events. Provides guidelines for using haiku in nature education. (LFL)

Educating for personal knowing requires an approach to learning that is based in direct sensory experience. Creative art activity nurtures the development of vital sensory experience at every stage of the life cycle. Through imagination, sensory experience is transformed into self-knowledge and conceptual thought; together they illuminate the…

Children are inspired to write creatively if they are free to sensorially absorb and naturally react to the world around them. (JH)

This article describes how new communication technologies and channels of communication are impacting historically basic channels of communication. This impact is described as being an incremental and evolutionary process rather than a blunt transition. A main theme stressed is that historically basic channels of communication, strongly grounded…

Article traced the learning experiences appropriate to aesthetic education. (RK)

Describes a center--a highly developed play space--to teach sensory concepts (up, down, in, out, above, below, sweet, sour, hot, cold, loud, soft, and others) to blind children. (Author/JF)

The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether two dimensions of a single auditory stimulus are processed as competing channels of information, and if they are, whether S can selectively attend to one dimension specified at the beginning of a trial. (Author)

The stability of Teplovian sensory individual difference dimensions is estimated to facilitate their integration into sensory dimensional analysis work in human learning. (PR)