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Inkson, Kerr; Amundson, Norman E. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2002
This article draws attention to the inevitability of metaphor in human thought, discourse, and theory, including that concerning careers. Explores the benefits and dangers of metaphorical thinking and advocates the use of "multiple metaphor" as a means of understanding careers and considers how career counseling practice can be assisted through…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Metaphors, Theory Practice Relationship
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Roesler, Glenn R. – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1987
Assesses the unaccepted use of figurative language in science and technical writing, especially, objections to metaphor's imputed ambiguity. Proposes that metaphor play a stronger role in conceptualization of scientific and technical ideas. (MS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Styles, Metaphors, Technical Writing
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Bredeson, Paul V. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1988
Metaphors, whether verbalized, symbolized, or camouflaged, reveal school administrators' perceptions, values, and behaviors. This article examines how specific metaphors (assembly line, ticking clock, garden, mirror of society, museum, and candy machine) contribute to an understanding of school characteristics and administration. Training and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Metaphors, Organizational Theories, School Administration
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Spinelli, Ernesto – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2000
Expresses the author's personal view of evil as considered by psychotherapeutic theories. Challenges the psychotherapeutic tendency to avoid the moral and existential dimensions of evil via the transformative language of psychopathology that allows practitioners to rely upon metaphors of disease or immaturity. Presents an inter-psychic viewpoint…
Descriptors: Counseling Theories, Foreign Countries, Metaphors, Moral Values
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Mosenthal, Peter B. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Notes the limitations of the traditional conceptualization of reading in terms of a conduit metaphor, consisting of three parts: (l) an input, (2) an output, and (3) a model that describes the relationship. Argues the merits of looking at reading in light of the tool metaphor, viewing readers and writers as users of information. (NH)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Language Processing, Metaphors, Reading Instruction
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Goodman, Frederick L. – Simulation & Gaming, 1995
Discussion of games and game-like exercises developed by the author at the University of Michigan focuses on the relationship between theory and practice in education. Highlights include simulation games, metaphoric games, literal games, and puzzle-based games. (LRW)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Theory, Higher Education, Metaphors
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Koch, Christian – Computers and the Humanities, 1991
Suggests that instruction and research that combine the humanities and computer science should be conducted by people skilled in both fields. Argues against dividing such work between idea and technical people. Describes a neural network approach to the study of metaphor that reflects the connectionist method. (SG)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction, Metaphors
Banathy, Bela H.; Earle, Rodney S. – Educational Technology, 1994
Includes two columns that discuss comprehensive systems design in education, including the design architecture and the dynamics of design; and the use of metaphors in explaining teacher planning and classroom interactions, including mental planning and imagery and the relationships between metaphor and practice. (Contains 22 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Design, Metaphors, Systems Development
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Munby, Hugh – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1990
Based on Schon's study of the nature of practical knowledge and his rejection of "technical rationality," this article examines the metaphorical language that teachers use when talking about their work. Teachers' definitions of curriculum in relation to their practice is a significant phenomenon for curriculum theorists to address.…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Figurative Language, Metaphors
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Newman, Sara J. – Written Communication, 2001
Investigates Aristotle's metaphorical definitions of rhetoric in book 1 of his "Rhetoric," using his own theory of metaphor as a measure of his practice in these definitions. Indicates that Aristotle's practice in the situation does not match his theory, a circumstance that has consequences for one's reading of the "Rhetoric."…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Definitions, Higher Education, Metaphors
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Arrington, Phillip K. – College English, 1986
Offers a montage of the most important revisions of the four master tropes--metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony--for the composing process itself. Discusses the capacity of tropes to prefigure ideological stances toward language and writing. (EL)
Descriptors: College English, Educational Theories, Irony, Language Usage
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Sztajn, Paola – Educational Leadership, 1992
Applying Deming's principles to education represents change in metaphor, not paradigm shift. Exchanging factory metaphor for enlightened corporation metaphor updates business/economics image but perpetuates view of students as raw materials to be processed efficiently. No business metaphor truly aims at improving society as a whole. If production…
Descriptors: Art, Beliefs, Business, Efficiency
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Beck, Charles E. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1993
Outlines six principles for the rhetoric of communication, identifying as distinctive the organizational and collaborative nature of the field. Argues that communicators can more effectively collaborate with experts and with users if they understand two contrasting metaphors for typical thought patterns: logic and narration (or list and story).…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Logic, Metaphors, Narration
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Anderson, Frances E. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2001
Metaphors for researchers, such as a crusader; a traveler; an explorer; a miner; an astronaut; a biblical Daniel; a Samurai; and an archaeologist are discussed. Benefits of conducting research are enumerated, including building the knowledge base for art therapy; increasing professional opportunities; improving client care; and advancing the…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Metaphors, Models, Professional Development
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Wickman, Scott A.; Campbell, Cynthia – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2003
The counseling session between Carl Rogers and Gloria is one of the most widely used teaching tools in the field of counselor education. This article explores a framework for investigating conceptual metaphor, which provided a useful method for understanding how meaning negotiation took place within the session as well as how Rogers and Gloria…
Descriptors: Congruence (Psychology), Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Counselor Training
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