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Ravetz, Jerome – Democracy & Education, 2009
Among the materials used for teaching are texts: written descriptions and explanations of the mathematical ideas. This work of interpretation is essential to the life of mathematics; in its absence, mathematical knowledge is nothing but squiggles on paper. Up to now, explanatory math texts have been used almost exclusively in an uncritical way. In…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Democracy, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
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Bucci, Terri Teal – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2002
Suggests that stories about the classroom experiences of expert teachers can provide novice or struggling teachers with knowledge useful to their own situations. Presents a cyclical model of learning from expert stories--the textual assimilation interchange--in which the text of the story brings the reader (learner) into the expert's world and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Education, Learning Processes, Master Teachers
Benton, Michael – 1990
This paper examines the uniqueness of poetry and classroom methodology as found in children's experiences of hearing, enacting, discussing, and making poems. Poetry offers the peculiar use of language, form, and a fresh look. Poems are useful in the classroom as they are read differently from ordinary text, are read with both the eye and the ear,…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Techniques, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Education
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Marland, Percy; And Others – Distance Education, 1990
Describes study that examined how Australian distance education students use and learn from textual materials. Text processing strategies and rates of progress are examined; textual features including study guides, table of contents, cross-referencing, and visual aids are considered; and recommendations for improving learning from textual…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Hiller, Claire – Australian Journal of Reading, 1987
Argues that picture books pose difficulties for young children who are not yet equipped to interpret them. (AEW)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Illustrations
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Goodman, Gayle – Language Arts, 1987
Records the attempts of a very young child to construct his own understanding of what it means to die and of the social impact of death within his own culture. Includes transcripts in which the child uses narrative to frame his first, tentative ideas about death and responds to literature to further extend his understanding. (JD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature
Jones, Beau Fly – 1985
Defining reading as a constructive process involving an interaction of the reader, the text, and the context, this paper offers a model of student cognitive processing that incorporates research in reading, thinking, teaching, and instructional materials. The first section of the paper provides the theoretical context for developing the model,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Interaction, Knowledge Level, Learning Processes
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Benest, I. D. – Computers and Education, 1990
Discussion of computer-assisted learning (CAL) versus book learning focuses on software called a book emulator that was applied to CAL to reflect desirable attributes of learning from books. A project at the University of York that used the book emulator in an electronics course is described, and future possibilities are suggested. (12 references)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Electronics, Foreign Countries
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Root, Robert L., Jr. – English Journal, 1991
Explores the interrelationship of learning, language and literature. Suggests assignments that allow students to respond like readers rather than like apprentice critics. Asserts that writing is not merely recording, and reading is not merely decoding. States that confusions about meaning and syntax disappear when writers read their own work…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Literature, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
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Norris, Stephen P.; Phillips, Linda M. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1994
Challenges the widely endorsed practice of activating relevant knowledge prior to reading. Outlines a perspectival (perspective-relative) view of reading and suggests that this view provides a means to make coherent sense of interpretations. Concludes that having specific knowledge is not the main desideratum in interpreting texts--the main…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Loveridge, Judith – 1991
The ideas, practices, and day-to-day impact of parent education should be critically examined, and Michel Foucault's conception of discourse provides a useful model for doing so. Contemporary discourses about becoming a parent achieve their authority in different ways. In contrast to the child care literature by so-called experts earlier in this…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries, Infants
Lightfoot, Martin, Ed.; Martin, Nancy, Ed. – 1988
Reflecting the influence of James Britton in the field of language and learning, this book--a collection of essays by researchers and practitioners in the area of language and learning--focuses on recent issues of language development in learning. The book contains the following 27 essays: (1) "Social Interaction as Scaffold: The Power and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
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Oldfather, Penny; Dahl, Karin – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1994
Critiques current understandings of children's motivation for literacy learning, and argues for a reconceptualization of motivation that centers on the learner as agent in the social construction of meaning. Uses vignettes and examples from studies conducted in whole-language classrooms to investigate children's perspectives of their own literacy…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Ethnography, Language Attitudes, Learning Motivation
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Language Arts, 1986
Expresses the viewpoints of six teachers concerning the importance of considering a child's individual needs in reading or writing instruction. (DF)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Learning Processes
Sperling, Melanie – 1991
When students are learning to write, one-to-one teacher-student conversations taking place around the students' writing and writing processes are especially important. Two examples illustrate the multiple and connected processes of reading and writing that are associated with composing in a high school English class. The first conversation, in a…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Communication Research, High Schools