The need to provide alternative and exciting community service-learning experiences with university students has been a challenge to institutions of higher education. One institution was able to capitalize on an idea of integrating challenge and adventure-based activities as a form of community service. This article focuses on undergraduate…

Although pervasive throughout counseling psychology and other training programs that incorporate experiential activities, reflective journals have sparse, fragmented and disparate theoretical bases to support their use. Coming from the fields of counseling and professional education, the authors use counselor education as a template to explore the…

Questions why teachers persist in using red-ink pencils to mark students' papers. Draws parallels between psychological impact of red ink and associations with blood, violence, and horror. (NEC)

Recounts weekend at a bee farm, an activity for a required Lehigh University freshman English composition course designed to facilitate socialization and exchange of ideas and to provide experiences for students to write about. Uses excerpts from journals of nine students. (NEC)

Illustrates how the concept of function, which is fundamental to all of mathematics, might be explored in a student-centered learning situation. Stresses the teacher's role as that of a guide, permitting students at times to attempt methods that seem certain to fail. (NEC)

Hypothesized ways in which level of participants' anxiety affected their experience during outdoor adventure course. Studies anxiety levels of 27 male and 13 female incoming Wheaton College freshmen participating in 3-week High Road Program involving solar experiences, rock climbing, and rappelling. (NEC)

Results of 3-year study of over 200 University of Maryland student interns indicated participants felt internships helped them locate jobs, test career interests, provide opportunities to integrate classroom learning with field experience, and better understand personal and career goals. (NEC)

Examines effects of wilderness orientation program at the University of New Hampshire specifically designed to reduce student attrition and assist in the development of first-year university students. Reports higher first-year grade-point averages and greater levels of student development among participants. (NEC)

Explains an experiential approach used to teach a course in state and local government at Unity College in Maine. Outlines course requirements and activities, which include field trips to the state capitol, research on current issues, and interviews with state and local officials. (JHZ)

Gives the viewpoints of a graduate student in experiential education on topics such as reasons for choosing a career in experiential education, academic status of the field, prospects for employment and salary, and personal and political philosophy related to this career choice. (JHZ)

Describes Queen's University of Kingston cooperative/internship approach to educating teachers for a variety of experiential settings. Outlines program offerings which include special studies in group process, curriculum design, wilderness crisis management, mobile comparative studies of experientially based programs, and a final internship. (NEC)

Uses excerpts from student journals to describe effect on writing style and content of a two-day camping and challenge experience for college freshmen in remedial writing course. (LFL)

Outlines three different models of formal experiential education: instruction group process, simulation and games, and field experience. Describes the development of the Field Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley and examines the process by which all three traditions were effectively integrated into the program. (SB)

Describes the new roles and benefits for both students and faculty that are resulting from the increase in the use of internship training as a component of professional and pre-professional training in higher education institutions. (SB)

Explores aspects of stress and burnout, showing their relationship to culture shock. Describes an off-campus, field-based, 4-component model that adapts Outward Bound concepts of controlled stress and is used as a preventative approach at the preservice teacher education level. (SB)