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Satmaz, Ismail; Tortop, Hasan Said; Temi, Elmaziye – Higher Education Studies, 2018
This study aims to reveal the metaphorical perceptions related to the concept of Science and Art Center (SAC,) which is a state institution where the gifted students in Turkey receive support for their education. For this purpose, gifted students were asked to produce metaphors about SAC concepts. The participants of the research are 59 students…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Phenomenology
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San Martin, Teresa L.; Calabrese, Raymond L. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify how at-risk high school students in an alternative school describe how they best learn and to extrapolate their preferred learning practices to improve teacher pedagogical practices. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used a qualitative case study design to facilitate the first two stages of…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, At Risk Students, Content Analysis, Educational Environment
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Clary-Lemon, Jennifer – College Composition and Communication, 2009
This piece continues the work of scholars in the field who look to uncover the ideological and textual practices of our dependence on the construct of "race" through racialized metaphors. Analyzing the rhetoric of race in "College Composition and Communication" and "College English" since 1990, I assert that our categorization of what "race" is…
Descriptors: Race, Rhetoric, Scholarship, Ideology