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Lynch, Patricia L. – 1995
A new child has the potential for adding dimension and enrichment to the parents' and acquaintances' lives. Simulation development metaphorically mirrors pregnancy, birth, parental guidance, and maturation. An individual begins with a desire for enjoyment and future possibilities. Nurturers of simulation are aided by setting the following broad…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Cooperation, Higher Education, Metaphors
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Low, Graham D. – Applied Linguistics, 1988
Argues that metaphor should be given a more important place in language teaching and considers ways in which the expanded available knowledge about metaphors can be incorporated into language art curricula, through such methods as multi-text exercises. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Figurative Language, Language Research, Metaphors
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Power, Brenda Miller – English Education, 1990
Argues for more blurring of the roles of teachers, students, and researchers. Examines models and metaphors in process instruction (specifically the Jazz Metaphor), and shows how new "blurred" roles for teachers and acceptance of a range of methods can be applied in working with future teachers. (KEH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Teacher Education, Higher Education, Metaphors
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Scruggs, Thomas E.; Mastropieri, Margo A. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1998
This commentary on C. Addison Stone's paper on the scaffolding metaphor for the learning disabilities field urges that all available literature, rather than a particular metaphor, should be used to evaluate the efficacy of instructional procedures in interpreting findings of instructional research. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Metaphors
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Lensmire, Timothy J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1997
Investigates how teaching and the teacher's role in elementary and secondary school writing classes have been conceptualized by leading workshop advocates. Uses M. Bakhtin's writing on F. Dostoevsky to develop a metaphor of the writing teacher as novelist. Argues that workshop visions of teaching and the teacher's role mystify meaning-making and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Group Discussion, Group Dynamics
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Dana, Nancy Fichtman; Tippins, Deborah J. – Social Science Record, 1993
Contends that metaphorical thinking can help teachers and students construct new contexts for instruction and learning. Describes the use of metaphors as the basis for a preservice elementary social studies education course. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
Honey, Margaret; McMillan, Katherine – 1993
The kinds of representations and associations that elementary and secondary educators are building of the Internet and the ways in which these representations vary depending on their use were studied. Subjects were teachers from the Center for Technology in Education (New York) national telecommunications survey who had responded that they used…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Educational Practices, Educational Technology