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Jones, Colin – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: This paper seeks to discuss the development of a strategy game for enterprise education. It is argued that requiring students to initially struggle with the game's rules and strategies results in a worthwhile test of their persistence and ability to manage ambiguity. Further, that in the absence of uncertainty, students will not benefit…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Experiential Learning, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
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Elbow, Peter – College English, 2007
"Voice" is no longer a hot term in composition journals. Yet it continues to deserve scholarly attention, in part because it is still often referred to in classrooms and seems applicable to new forms of electronic communication. At the same time, we should avoid taking an either/or stand on the usefulness of "voice" as a term. This is a case where…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Figurative Language, Writing Instruction
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Danforth, Scot – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2007
A growing, interdisciplinary field of cognitive linguistics has developed in recent decades, bringing together research from many fields to explore the ways that metaphors provide structure and semantic content to thought and language. In this article, the American public school disability emotional/behavioral disorder (E/BD) is examined in regard…
Descriptors: Semantics, Figurative Language, Public Education, Public Schools
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Mashal, N.; Faust, M.; Hendler, T.; Jung-Beeman, M. – Brain and Language, 2007
The neural networks associated with processing related pairs of words forming literal, novel, and conventional metaphorical expressions and unrelated pairs of words were studied in a group of 15 normal adults using fMRI. Subjects read the four types of linguistic expressions and decided which relation exists between the two words (metaphoric,…
Descriptors: Neurolinguistics, Figurative Language, Language Processing, Adults
Middleton, Thomas H. – Saturday Review (New York 1975), 1975
Article evaluated some of the metaphors President Ford has used in his speeches and suggested that if they were more practical he might have more success communicating his messages. (RK)
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Imagery, Language Usage, Metaphors
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Hardaway, Francine – College English, 1976
Descriptors: Athletics, Figurative Language, Metaphors, Politics
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Edwards, Anne – Curriculum Journal, 2005
This article is an attempt to tease out what is so often termed learning through participation. Drawing on the analysis undertaken by the Learning Outcomes Thematic Group, the use of the participation metaphor in TLRP projects is discussed. The conclusion arrived at is that its use appears mainly to focus on behaviour and engagement in practices.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Processes
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McArdle, Felicity; McWilliam, Erica – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2005
This paper seeks to make trouble for the metaphor of 'balance' in early childhood education research, drawing on the arguments of Gore (1993, 1997), Haraway (1991), McWilliam (1999), and a study (McArdle, 2001) that was designed to focus not only on teacher practice, but also to inquire into ways of speaking teacher practice. Our rationale for…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Children, Early Childhood Education
Klepousniotou, E.; Baum, S.R. – Brain and Language, 2005
Using an auditory semantic priming paradigm, the present study investigated the abilities of left-hemisphere-damaged (LHD) non-fluent aphasic, right-hemisphere-damaged (RHD) and normal control individuals to access, out of context, the multiple meanings of three types of ambiguous words, namely homonyms (e.g., ''punch''), metonymies (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Patients, Neurological Impairments, Figurative Language
Hoctor, Marge – Gifted Child Today, 2005
The Internet is often called "The Information Highway," a metaphor that implies that there is a straight, clearly mapped path to obtaining information. In reality, it is more like a maze with twists and turns and many dead ends. Efficient navigation strategies must be taught; they will not be acquired through osmosis. Schools with a strong…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Achievement Tests, Information Literacy
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Orland-Barak, Lily – Journal of Teacher Education, 2005
Situated in the context of Israeli in-service education, this article explores the development of the author's understanding of the process of learning to mentor from the acquisition of communicative competencies (as identified in an initial study), toward a more discursive view of the process as "participation in competing discourses of practice"…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Figurative Language, Translation, Mentors
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Baer, John; Kaufman, James C. – Roeper Review, 2005
One of the most contentious areas in creativity theory is the question of domain specificity. How we conceptualize creativity--as something that transcends content domains, or as something that varies depending on the domain in question--has important implications for both creativity research and creativity training programs. The Amusement Park…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Gifted, Creativity, Creative Thinking
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Festino, Cielo G. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2006
The purpose of this paper is to offer a reading of "Handwriting", the book of poems by the Canadian-Sri Lankan author, Michael Ondaatje, in which he recovers the recent and ancient cultural history of the island through his reading of different types of scripts and languages. The texts that Ondaatje rewrites in his poems are visual,…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Poetry, Foreign Countries, Figurative Language
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Lopez y. Royo, Alessandra – Research in Dance Education, 2002
The paper proposes that existing methodologies for dance studies can be extended through consideration of recently developing methodologies from social archaeology. It is first argued that an archaeological perspective on dance is enriching for archaeology, whose recent interest in dance as a focus of investigation can be seen as an attempt to…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Figurative Language, Archaeology, Dance
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Passe, Jeff – Social Education, 2006
In a speech delivered by the author, he used the metaphor of a meal to structure his address. His topic was about social studies and food. He states, that the way to the curriculum's heart is through social studies. It can be through the stomach, as well as the brain, and the spirit. He added, that in social studies, people tend to look at things…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Social Studies, Curriculum Development
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