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Download full textGrunst, Robert – 1992
The process of figuring things out probably is more intriguing than anything else. Metaphor and memory contribute to the figuring out which is done in two personal essays: "Think about It" by Frank Conroy and "The Hidden Teacher" by Loren Eiseley. Metaphor and memory close distances between text and reader, and evoke conditions…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Essays, Experience, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedWong, David; Pugh, Kevin – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2001
Discusses Dewey's vision of the scientific mind and analyzes the stereotype of scientific thinking. Explains Dewey's notion of experience and clarifies the difference between ordinary experience and a Deweyan experience. (Contains 27 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Epistemology, Experience, Learning, Motivation
