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Wong, Bernice Y. L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1998
This introduction to a series of articles on the scaffolding metaphor in learning disabilities research introduces each article and raises two main concerns: the lack of careful delineation of how scaffolding becomes operational in research studies and constraints in the use of scaffolding arising from communication problems. (DB)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
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Parker, Jonathan K. – Teacher Educator, 1995
Describes efforts by students in a social foundations course to integrate their own personal metaphor of teaching with the metaphor employed by the institution in its conceptual framework. The assignment was based on research that noted the role of the metaphor in the construction of identity for professional teachers. Examples of student…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Adams, Lois; Cessna, Kay – Preventing School Failure, 1993
Discussions with exemplary Colorado general and special education coteachers led to development of three metaphors for the coteaching process: (1) yin and yang (the uniqueness and unity of the two teachers); (2) the dance (the rhythm, fluidity, and automaticity of effective collaboration); and (3) the particle and the stream (the thriving of…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Metaphors
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Paine, Lynn Webster – Teachers College Record, 1990
Explores the conceptual basis of teaching in China through the metaphor of teacher as virtuoso performer, with teaching considered an art. Field research results on teacher preparation and elementary and secondary teaching practice are shared. Shortcomings of this teaching model and implications for educational reform are considered. (IAH)
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education