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Kokko, Suvi; Lagerkvist, Carl Johan – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Using a case example of an innovative sanitation solution in a slum setting, this study explores the usefulness of the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique in a program planning and evaluation context. Using a qualitative image-based method to map people's mental models of ill-structured problems such as sanitation can aid program planners and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Evaluation Methods, Sanitation, Slums
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Dolphin, Glenn; Benoit, Wendy – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
At present, quality earth science education in grade school is rare, increasing the importance of post-secondary courses. Observations of post-secondary geoscience indicate students often maintain errant ideas about the earth, even after direct instruction. This qualitative case study documents model-building activities of students as they…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Earth Science
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Duru, Sibel – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: Student teachers' beliefs and conceptions affect not only what and how they learn in teacher education programs, but also their future professional development in their teaching careers. Examining and understanding student teachers' beliefs and conceptions is therefore crucial to improving their professional preparation and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Student Teachers, Figurative Language, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Bernard-Donals, Michael – College English, 2012
On the third floor of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), in Washington, D.C., inside a glass case, lie thousands of shoes. Old and mismatched, moldering after sixty years, they are what remains of countless Jews who were told to disrobe and who were subsequently murdered at Majdanek, Poland, during the final years of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clothing, Figurative Language, Museums
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Buttner, Gerhard – British Journal of Religious Education, 2007
"Theologizing with children" has arisen from influences of philosophizing with children, from research in the Piagetian tradition and also from the interest of the Evangelical Church in Germany to "change to the child's perspective". It searches for the theological quality of children's remarks which are considered to be a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Philosophy, Figurative Language
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Wilcox, Phyllis Perin – Sign Language Studies, 2005
Ordinary language behavior in ASL reveals parallel cognitive structures that are both similar to and different from spoken-language behavior. This article focuses on the metaphorical similarities between English and ASL that are found in the metaphors "Mind is a container," and "Ideas are objects." Also examined are differences in metaphor…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Figurative Language, Cognitive Structures, Sign Language