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Yuhua Yu; Lindsay Krebs; Mark Beeman; Vicky T. Lai – Cognitive Science, 2024
Metaphor generation is both a creative act and a means of learning. When learning a new concept, people often create a metaphor to connect the new concept to existing knowledge. Does the manner in which people generate a metaphor, via sudden insight (Aha! moment) or deliberate analysis, influence the quality of generation and subsequent learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Figurative Language, Intuition, Outcomes of Education
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Agyakwa, Kofi – Journal of Educational Thought, 1988
Urges educators to examine the role that intuition can play in the teaching-learning process. Analyzes four models of intuitive knowledge, and reviews arguments against intuitive claims to knowledge. Discusses the universality of intuition, its relationship to self-evident truths, and its role in scientific discoveries, inventions, and art. (DMM)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Creative Thinking, Educational Theories, Epistemology
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, Washington, DC. Commission of Professors of Adult Education. – 1991
This document contains the following 30 papers (most with short abstracts): "The Teacher Transition Response" (Carley); "There Must Be Some Meaning to This: Storytelling as a Research Method" (Group for Collaborative Inquiry); "The Impact of Patient, Social and Political, Practice Environment, and Physician Factors on the Integration of Health…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking