Discusses how the aesthetic experience of sensuous immediacy has been reduced by common approaches to art education and the modern technocratic society. The article advocates that aesthetic education stress sensuous immediacy to promote creativity, art appreciation, and empathy. (AM)

Results of this study indicate a difference in enjoyment and interest levels between sensory (N=35) and non-sensory (N=25) senior citizen groups engaged in interpretive hikes. Enjoyment/interest levels were measured by direct observation during the hikes and a questionnaire administered at the conclusion of the hikes. (JN)

Educational psychologists frequently consider the arts to be emotive forms that might provide satisfaction--but not understanding. This article argues that if cognition is a matter of becoming aware, of perceiving, then the senses and the arts play a crucial role in providing essential resources for education. (Author/WD)

Studied trust in counselor-client relationships. Experimental results supported the contention that clients will perceive their counselors as more trustworthy when the counselor matches the Primary Representational System (PRS) of the client. The strategy of noting eye movements tended to be more reliable in assessing PRS than listening to…

Presents computational and psychophysical evidence in support of a theory of one of the earliest stages of visual processing in reading--the isolation of words in text. (HOD)

The arts should be part of the core curriculum because human cognition is wider than discourse and because the forms one is able to use define the scope of the reality that one can know. (Author/IRT)

Found that the greater the frequency of marijuana use the higher the scores on creativity and adventuresomeness and the lower the scores on authoritarianism. Males were more frequent users than females; Jews more frequent users than Protestants or Catholics. Internal sensation novelty seeking correlated with frequency of marijuana use. (Author)

Suggests activities that sharpen sensory awareness in prose and poetry instruction; relates some of the exercises to specific literary texts. (MAI)

A program model for use in gifted classrooms focuses on achieving altered states of consciousnes in order to further develop the natural talents of children. (PHR)