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Peer reviewedMignot, Phil – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2000
Describes the development of a practice-based methodology for researching "career" in constructive and critical terms. Suggests that career theories continue to be confounded by the dualism of human agency and social structure. Provides a detailed exposition of metaphor as a paradigm for practice-based research based on a synthesis of…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Constructivism (Learning), Critical Theory, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFife, Jane Mathison; O'Neill, Peggy – College Composition and Communication, 2001
Acknowledges the varied ways that teachers respond to student writing, and the varied ways that students influence and interpret those responses. Narrows the gap between teaching practices and research questions. Reevaluates the metaphor of conversation that has been repeatedly used to describe teacher response, arguing that the implications of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, Metaphors, Research Methodology
Peer reviewedPineau, Elyse Lamm – American Educational Research Journal, 1994
This article reconceptualizes performance as a generative metaphor for educational research based on theoretical and methodological points of contact between instructional communication and performance studies. Asking which aspects of educational experience are open to performance-centered research, it considers new research agendas. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Experience, Educational Research
Download full textShort, Darren C.; Ardichvili, Alexander; Daley, Barbara J.; Kalata, Erica; Kraemer, Theresa J.; Kuchinke, K. Peter; Willis, Verna J. – 2002
A group of human resource development (HRD) practitioners participated in an innovative session on applying metaphor in HRD research and practice. The session objectives were as follows: (1) facilitate a dialogue between those who wrote for and those who read the Advances in Developing Human Resources (ADHR)issue on metaphor in HRD; (2) extend the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Definitions, Educational Research, Group Discussion
Anderson, Linda – 2000
The relationship between life history, gender, and the discourse of modernization was examined from the perspective of a researcher with extensive experience performing evaluations about modernization within human services in Denmark. Three stories about site-based management in two human service institutionsa youth center and a boarding school…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bias, Biographies, Comparative Analysis
Ward, Jane; Edwards, Judith – 2002
Learners' views on their progress and achievement in literacy and numeracy were examined in a study during which practitioners from eight further education colleges in England interviewed 70 adults (ages 16 to over 60 years) enrolled in literacy, numeracy, or English-for-speakers-of-other-languages programs. The metaphor of traveling on a learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators
