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The Impact Of Experiential Education On Adolescent Development, Daniel Conrad, Diane Hedin

School K-12

This article summarizes the findings of a national study of 27 varied programs and concludes that experience-based educational programs can have a significant positive impact on the social, psychological, and intellectual development of adolescents.

Action Learning In Minnesota, Dan Conrad, Diane Hedin

School K-12

This publication describes over 100 activity-oriented programs in which students learn through a combination of direct experience and associated instruction or reflection. Students are involved in cross-age tutoring, community services, on-the-job work experiences, foreign or domestic travel with an organized group, political campaigns, field trips, art show-productions, movie making, and still photography. Information was gathered in the spring of 1975 when the Student Community Involvement Project of the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals sent out a questionnaire to all secondary schools in the state to determine how many of them had adopted action learning. …

A Study Of The Teen Girl's Reactions To National Service, Seventeen

School K-12

This study was designed to probe the reactions of teenage girls to National Service -- a program enabling young people to serve their country in such non-military ways as nursing, teaching and working in rural and big city slums.

The questionnaire covered:
Reactions to National Service
- as a voluntary program
- as a compulsory program
If and when teen girls would participate in such a program
Opinions on National Service for men as a substitute or an addition to regular military service