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Metaphor in the thinking of teachers: An exploratory study
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In this article, an exploratory study of metaphor in the thinking of teachers is presented. But this study is limited to the case of English language arts and is not suitable for other languages.Abstract:
(1986). Metaphor in the thinking of teachers: An exploratory study. Journal of Curriculum Studies: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 197-209.read more
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Teachers’ Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning Up a Messy Construct:
TL;DR: The authors examines the meaning prominent researchers give to beliefs and how this meaning differs from that of knowledge, provides a definition of belief consistent with the best work in this area, and explores the nature of belief structures as outlined by key researchers.
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Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry
TL;DR: The authors briefly survey forms of narrative inquiry in educational studies and outline certain criteria, methods, and writing forms, which they describe in terms of beginning the story, living the story and selecting stories to construct and reconstruct narrative plots.
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A Critical Analysis of the Research on Learning to Teach: Making the Case for an Ecological Perspective on Inquiry
TL;DR: In this article, a review of empirical studies on learning to teach was conducted to establish what is currently known about how people learn to teach and to critique the quality of the reporting of that research.
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Ways of Evaluating Teacher Cognition: Inferences Concerning the Goldilocks Principle
TL;DR: The authors compare five different approaches to the evaluation of teacher cognition: (a) direct and non-inferential ways of assessing teacher belief, (b) methods that rely on contextual analyses of teachers' descriptive language, (c) taxonomies for assessin...
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Relational Analysis of Personal Epistemology and Conceptions about Teaching and Learning.
Kwok Wai Chan,Robert G. Elliott +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, four epistemological belief and two teaching and learning conception dimensions were identified from a survey study of a sample of Hong Kong teacher education students and Pearson correlation analysis showed significant relations between Innate/Fixed Ability, Authority/Expert Knowledge and Certainty Knowledge with Traditional Conception and Learning Effort/Process with Constructivist Conception.
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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
Barry Checkoway,Donald A. Schön +1 more
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff,Mark Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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Metaphors We Live by
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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The reflective practitioner : how professionals think in action
TL;DR: In this paper, the crisis of confidence in professional knowledge from technical rationality to reflection-in-action is discussed and its implications for the professions and their place in society are discussed.
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Metaphor and Thought
TL;DR: Ortony as mentioned in this paper discusses metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor induction, induction, and social policy in the context of metaphor comprehension and metaphor understanding in science, education, and education.