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Chenfeld, Mimi Brodsky – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Describes an instance in which a teacher used techniques that foster such qualities as imagination, wonder, discovery, and success in children. These qualities should be the foundation of all classroom goals. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Early Childhood Education, Imagination, Teaching Methods
Parsons, Michael J. – Stud Art Educ, 1970
According to Sir Herbert Read, the best form of art results from the workings of the unconscious mind. (CK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Art Education, Creativity, Discovery Processes
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Mitchell, Kathleen E.; Levin, Al S.; Krumboltz, John D. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1999
Explores the important role of chance in career experiences and the fact that career counseling is still perceived as a process designed to eliminate chance from career decision making. Challenges career counselors to adopt a counseling intervention that views unplanned events as both inevitable and desirable. (Author/GCP)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Discovery Processes, Intellectual Development, Learning Experience
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Flannery, Maura C. – American Biology Teacher, 2004
A mention of "The Fungus Fighters: Two Women Scientists and Their Discovery" by Richard Baldwin and discovery of a huge fungus of the species Armillaria bulbosa and A. ostoyae are presented. Other aspects like fungal infections and shifting relationships are discussed.
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Women Scientists, Discovery Processes, Scientific Research
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Robinson, William R. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2004
The process used by scientists as they pursue research as a wheel with questions at the hub and various stages of the inquiry in a circular arrangement around the hub is described. It is noted that the process of scientific inquiry can begin from any stage and that stages may be revisited as often as the particular inquiry requires.
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Inquiry, Scientists, Scientific Research
Stephenson, Paul – Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, 2007
The Magic Mathworks Travelling Circus is a touring maths lab--in and of itself, a good thing. When children enter it, they find particular pieces of apparatus captioned with particular challenges--which is perhaps not such a good thing. Students are faced with an apparatus that can do only one thing, and so are not encouraged to look again at…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education, Experiential Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
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MacDonald, Theodore H. – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1973
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Number Concepts
Weimer, Richard C. – Educational Technology, 1975
An analysis of many definitions of discovery and a discourse on a new synthesis of these definitions. (HB)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Induction, Learning Processes
Oliver, Hugh – Interchange, 1977
Interviews with eleven Nobel Prize winners illustrate that, although a scientific discovery generally involves some kind of imaginative insight, there is no one obvious pattern whereby it manifests itself. (Author/MJB)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Discovery Processes, Imagination
Smith, Cyril Stanley – Outlook, 1976
The role of aesthetics in motivating technological innovations and discoveries is discussed. (DT)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Discovery Processes, Scientific Enterprise, Scientific Methodology
O'Reilly, A. P. – Training Officer, 1973
First itemizing the barriers to creative thinking, the author proceeds to suggest brainstorming, morphology, and a method of alternating circles as procedures to encourage creativity. Courses in problem-solving have proven successful. (AG)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Discovery Processes
Moffett, James – Elementary English, 1973
Inductive teaching methods are a form of discovery for generalities but are uneconomical and hard to warrant for the conveyance of facts. (MM)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Induction, Learning Processes
Chase, Bill – Library Journal, 1970
It should be the library's job to integrate a man with his present, thereby giving him a future, not to reconcile him with his past. (Author)
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Cultural Context, Culture, Discovery Processes
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Arons, Arnold B. – Physics Teacher, 1995
Presents the story of "The Perpetual Salt Fountain" to illustrate some fairly typical ramifications and vagaries in the workings of science. Outlines the discovery of double diffusive convection and uses the fact that it had been observed in the laboratory a century before its independent rediscovery to emphasize the vagaries of…
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Oceanography, Physics, Science Education
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Morris, Edward K. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1991
This essay presents a deconstruction of the phrase "technological to a fault" as it relates to applied behavior analysis. The essay discusses the imbalance between analysis as demonstration and analysis as discovery, offers a consequence and a cause, and examines the relationship of discovery and demonstration to behavior-analytic…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavioral Science Research, Discovery Processes, Epistemology
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