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Download full textVavrus, Frances K. – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2017
This article draws upon my keynote address delivered at the 44th Oceania and Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES) Conference held at the University of Sydney. It examines how metaphors and other forms of symbolic language used to describe educational dilemmas shape the responses that are imaginable in addressing them. In…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Symbolic Language, Discourse Analysis, Achievement Gap
Chinese Education, 1977
Presents ideographic selections and class exercises from a Chinese first grade primer. Explanations in English are included. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Education, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
