Suggestions for teaching Native American studies in the outdoors or the classroom include using accurate instructional materials, integrating Native American studies across the curriculum, connecting traditional values and beliefs to contemporary life, respecting Native culture, challenging stereotypes, being aware of students' cultural…

Describes a science and math pilot project developed for Mohawk junior high school students in Ahkwesahsne (Canada) that integrates Iroquois culture with Western approaches to learning science. Curriculum units are based on the Mohawk Thanksgiving Address that acknowledges all aspects of life. Includes a passage examining differences between…

Describes a learning activity that is part of a curriculum developed for Indian students by the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations. The activity involves the proper protocol for picking mint, and includes objectives, background information, rules for gathering plants, materials required, evaluation, and additional learning activities. (LP)

Staff at the Leslie M. Frost Natural Resources Center (Ontario, Canada) have attempted to clarify their role in promoting understanding of Native peoples by participating in training programs about traditional and modern conservation practices, assembling a list of Native people who are willing to participate in training programs, planning a…

Training used by corporations and other organizations for management development has undergone changes over the years. The first generation of development training emphasized personal growth through physical challenge. The second generation added an intellectual dimension for processing the experience. The third generation includes physical,…

Illuminative evaluation is concerned primarily with description and interpretation. At an English residential outdoor education center, illuminative evaluation of the program involves establishing operational questions for study and collecting data through questionnaires, interviews, observation, document analysis, and field notes. Data are…

Problem solving in adventure programs contains physical, social, philosophical, and transcendent (insightful) elements. Through transcendent experiences students reach a high level of performance, tolerance, and understanding. Instructors often attempt to facilitate transcendent experiences through such activities as the Native American…

Outdoor pursuits can facilitate major psychological and philosophical change in participants, and can act as a catalyst for self-actualization. Participants are temporarily relieved from all but the basic needs in life, allowing efforts to be concentrated on intense, meaningful, personal experience. (KS)

Twenty-seven corporate managers completed the Priest Attarian Risk Taking Inventory before and after a day of rappelling. Subjects also completed a business version of the inventory a few weeks before and a few weeks after the experience. Subjects appeared to transfer some of their new risk-taking behaviors to their jobs. (KS)

Response to an earlier article in JRME in which the authors propose a constructivist alternative to the representational view of mind. Argues that the original article misinterprets the postepistemological perspective, confuses ontological and epistemological issues, and mistakes the pragmatic force of the constructivist argument. (45 references)…

Presents a response to Orton's article (this issue), claiming that the previous author presents a highly idiosyncratic interpretation of the Cartesian dualism, creates a gulf between theory and practice, and implies that the social and cultural aspects of mathematical activity can be dismissed. (65 references) (Author/MKR)

Examines the relationship between (n=6) teachers' and (n=30) students' personal constructs with regard to intrinsic motivation in the mathematics classroom. Most of the teachers had little notion of the motivational beliefs of their students. (15 references) (Author/MKR)

Discusses reasons for the failing of the computer in schools and universities, including: hardware emphasis, little focus on learning, little focus on students, software-based failure (elitist programs and weak interaction), the "idea of the moment," relation between information and learning, failure of teacher education, lack of empirical…

Describes a framework called scaffolded knowledge integration and illustrates how it guided the design of two successful course enhancements in the field of computer science and engineering: the LISP Knowledge Integration Environment and the spatial reasoning environment. (101 references) (Author/MKR)

Discusses the way that the Open University of the Netherlands has been developing a practical natural sciences degree program, gives examples of alternatives for traditional practical work, and presents advantages and disadvantages of traditional practical work. (17 references) (Author/MKR)