NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20250
Since 20240
Since 2021 (last 5 years)1
Since 2016 (last 10 years)4
Since 2006 (last 20 years)17
Audience
Teachers1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 17 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Jacob B. Castleberry; Kevin M. Clark – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2020
Philosophy for Children (P4C) is an educational program founded by Matthew Lipman and Ann Sharp in the 1970s to improve judgment in children by sharpening their critical, creative, and caring thinking skills. As children's engagement in philosophical dialogue is an essential component of the program, the teacher has a facilitative, rather than an…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Facilitators (Individuals)
Jennifer Hu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Language is one of the hallmarks of intelligence, demanding explanation in a theory of human cognition. However, language presents unique practical challenges for quantitative empirical research, making many linguistic theories difficult to test at naturalistic scales. Artificial neural network language models (LMs) provide a new tool for studying…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Computational Linguistics, Models, Language Research
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kokko, Suvi; Lagerkvist, Carl Johan – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Using a case example of an innovative sanitation solution in a slum setting, this study explores the usefulness of the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique in a program planning and evaluation context. Using a qualitative image-based method to map people's mental models of ill-structured problems such as sanitation can aid program planners and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Evaluation Methods, Sanitation, Slums
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dolphin, Glenn; Benoit, Wendy – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
At present, quality earth science education in grade school is rare, increasing the importance of post-secondary courses. Observations of post-secondary geoscience indicate students often maintain errant ideas about the earth, even after direct instruction. This qualitative case study documents model-building activities of students as they…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Earth Science
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Linn, Genie Bingham – Journal of Leadership Education, 2011
This study leads the reader on a learning journey with the heroic metaphors derived from heroic myths of today's pop culture to the views shared by aspiring administrators. Viewing the students' leadership vision of self as hero provided insight to guiding students in their personal leadership journey. By naming and describing self as hero, future…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Figurative Language, Popular Culture
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Duru, Sibel – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: Student teachers' beliefs and conceptions affect not only what and how they learn in teacher education programs, but also their future professional development in their teaching careers. Examining and understanding student teachers' beliefs and conceptions is therefore crucial to improving their professional preparation and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Student Teachers, Figurative Language, Student Teacher Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bernard-Donals, Michael – College English, 2012
On the third floor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in Washington, D.C., inside a glass case, lie thousands of shoes. Old and mismatched, moldering after sixty years, they are what remains of countless Jews who were told to disrobe and who were subsequently murdered at Majdanek, Poland, during the final years of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clothing, Figurative Language, Museums
Sanford, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Two of the major claims of the cognitivist approach to metaphor, the paradigm which has emerged as dominant over the last three decades, are (1) that metaphor is a conceptual, rather than strictly linguistic, phenomenon, and (2) that metaphor exemplifies processes which are at work in cognition more generally. This view of metaphor is here placed…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Schemata (Cognition), Linguistics, Figurative Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cheon, Jongpil; Grant, Michael M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a metaphorical interface on germane cognitive load in Web-based instruction. Based on cognitive load theory, germane cognitive load is a cognitive investment for schema construction and automation. A new instrument developed in a previous study was used to measure students' mental activities…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Cues, Web Based Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Schlinger, Henry D., Jr. – Psychological Record, 2009
Theory of mind (ToM) refers to the ability of an individual to make inferences about what others may be thinking or feeling and to predict what they may do in a given situation based on those inferences. Discussions of ToM focus almost exclusively on inferred cognitive structures and processes and shed little light on the actual behaviors…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Inferences, Cognitive Development, Behavioral Science Research
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Davis, Kenneth W.; Weeden, Scott R. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
For tens of thousands of years, teachers have used stories to promote learning. Today's teachers can do the same. In particular, we can employ Joseph Campbell's "monomyth"--with its stages of separation, initiation, and return--as a model for structuring learning experiences. Within the monomyth, one tempting role for teachers is the sage, but we…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Curriculum Design, Figurative Language, Story Telling
Koralus, Philipp Elias – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The dissertation presents a theory of semantics and pragmatics for both language and vision. I focus on sentences including proper names, descriptions, and attitude report verbs, and on the Necker cube. I propose the Open Instruction Theory (OIT), according to which the linguistic meaning of a sentence and the semantic contribution of visual…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language
Anderson, Scott Victor – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Motivating students is a central challenge for many teachers, particularly in subjects students commonly perceive as "impenetrable," such as statistics. One line of motivation research by C.S. Dweck (2006) has found that when students believe their intelligence is malleable (i.e., a growth mindset) and that learning is a function of effort, they…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Statistics, Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ignatow, Gabriel – Social Forces, 2009
This article argues that a modified version of Bourdieu's "habitus" concept can generate insights into moral culture and the ways people use culture to make changes in their lives. If revised in light of recent findings from cognitive neuroscience, the habitus allows for the analysis of culture as embodied cognitive structures linking individuals…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Whalley, Peter – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
The instructional metaphor is an important bridge to understanding, particularly when students are undertaking tasks that are conceptually difficult and outside their previous experience. It is suggested that the limitations of the implicit metaphor of the procedural control languages are the main cause of the problems experienced with delivering…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Cognitive Structures, Difficulty Level, Concept Formation
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1  |  2