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Pitcher, Erich N.; Shahjahan, Riyad A. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
Pipeline metaphors are ubiquitous in theorizing and interpreting college access processes. In this conceptual article, we explore how a lemonade metaphor can open new possibilities to reimagining higher education access and going processes. We argue that using food metaphors, particularly the processes of mixing, tasting, and digesting lemonade,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Figurative Language, Concept Formation
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Hofmann, Eric; Voloch, Daniel – New Directions for Higher Education, 2012
Dual enrollment is a place between high school and college that is neither exclusively one nor the other. Dual enrollment inhabits a space where larger questions about higher education--the cultural practices, norms, institutional relationships and interactions, and the overall "business" of learning--are grappled with on a daily basis. To the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits
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Lyle, Keith B.; Hanaver-Torrez, Shelley D.; Hacklander, Ryan P.; Edlin, James M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
Research has shown that consistently right-handed individuals have poorer memory than do inconsistently right- or left-handed individuals under baseline conditions but more reliably exhibit enhanced memory retrieval after making a series of saccadic eye movements. From this it could be that consistent versus inconsistent handedness, regardless of…
Descriptors: Handedness, Eye Movements, Figurative Language, Individual Differences
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Frederickson, Mary – History Teacher, 2004
Many historians agree that the United States survey has been in critical need of a new paradigm for some time, a paradigm in which chronology does not dominate and students can learn about multiple viewpoints and competing historical narratives, one in which gender and multiculturalism are expanded beyond male/female, beyond black/white/ brown.…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Textbooks, Social Change, Internet