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Peer reviewedPetrosky, Anthony R. – Language Arts, 1980
Discusses classroom literary practices related to teacher questioning, retelling, literalism, and figurative language for children in the concrete operational stage; concludes that recent research on response to literature may say as much about what children are taught to do as what they do developmentally. Offers suggestions about teaching…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Educational Practices, Educational Research
Peer reviewedParks, John G. – College Teaching, 1996
Literature is examined for its metaphors for teaching and teachers, including the teacher as custodian and steward of knowledge, as sower of knowledge, and as "trickster," a picaresque, mythical figure who offers solutions, often inadvertently. The roles of kindness and cruelty in the learning/teaching process are also considered. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Change
