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Tiger, Madeline – Teachers and Writers, 1994
Provides a method for helping young poets shape their poems by arranging lines and inventing poetic patterns. Shows how using odd geometrical shapes can be used to help students determine the arrangement of words in poems and to encourage a vital interaction between the visual form and the words inside it. (HB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Heuristics
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Dehler, Gordon E.; Welsh, M. Ann – Journal of Management Education, 1993
A strategy for teaching undergraduate organization theory and design uses dialectical inquiry (thesis-antithesis-synthesis) and involves students actively in classroom learning. Concepts are introduced through dichotomies as typically introduced in texts; discussion elaborates grey areas. Case analysis by this method conveys the often ambiguous…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classroom Techniques, Heuristics, Higher Education
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McBride, Lawrence W.; McKiddy, Gary E. – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1989
Suggests a method for presenting narrative accounts of one event in history so that students can practice analyzing and evaluating sources. Presents historical background about the capture of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1902, and offers three conflicting versions of this event with the teaching procedures for using the accounts in the classroom. (KO)
Descriptors: Arabs, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking