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Peer reviewedKliebard, Herbert M. – Theory into Practice, 1982
A curriculum theory begins in the transference of meaning from the familiar and the comprehensible to the abstract and perplexing problems arising from the actual teaching situation. These metaphors that evolve into theories serve to direct research by creating a symbolic language. (JN)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Curriculum Research, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
Molino, Jean – Langages, 1979
Challenges the contention of science that scientific language eliminates figurative language and, instead, demonstrates the relationship of metaphor, models, and analogy to scientific concepts. (AM)
Descriptors: Deduction, Epistemology, Figurative Language, Metaphors
