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Mental Imagery, Psychology, And Rhetoric: An Examination Of Recurring Problems, Linda T. Calendrillo

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The parallel debates on mental imagery in contemporary psychology and classical rhetoric have led to its marginal status in composition studies.

Mastery: Or, Where Does True Wisdom Lie?, Martha Goff Stoner

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Zen philosophy and contemporary physics heighten awareness of wisdom as a process not a product.

The Found Play: Learning And Teaching The Value Of Interpretive Reading And Writing, Randi Patterson, Kim Jernigan

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The "found" play is designed to make explicit the interpretive strategies that students use in everyday life, in a literary work, and in critical reading and writing.

Jaepl, Vol. 1, Winter 1995-1996, Alice G. Brand (Editor)

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Essays

Mary C. Doane. Writing Reality: Constructivism, Metaphor, and Cosmology. Two philosophies of metaphor are contrasted in constructing discourse and reality.

Derek Owens. Earthworm Hermeneutics. As an alternative to recent misreadings of boundary politics, a more responsible, outsider pedagogy needs to be cultivated.

Tim Doherty. Strictly Ballroom? Dancing Along the Borders of Movement and Writing. Multiple intelligences are exercised when movement and writing intersect in the composition curriculum.

Ellen W. Kaplan. The Subversive Play: Using Play, Dream, and the Body in the Classroom. The as-if world of play brings body-centered knowledge into the expressive writing class. …

The Subversive Element Of Play: Using Play, Dream And The B Ody In The Classroom, Ellen W. Kaplan

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The as-if world of play brings body-centered knowledge into the expressive writing class.

A Plea For Re-Form: Aesthetics In The Writing Classroom, Anne Mullin

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The emphasis on meaning and ideas should be refocused on form as an important aesthetic element in writing.

Writing Ritual And The Cultural Unconscious: The Great Mother Archetype In The Composition Classroom, Cramer Cauthen

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Jungian theory and feminist epistemology can be synthesized through their mythopoetic ways of making knowledge.

Writing Reality: Constructivism, Metaphor, And Cosmology, Mary C. Daane

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Two philosophies of metaphor are contrasted in constructing discourse and reality.

Images At The Heart Of Things: The Writer's Unconscious Speaking, Hildy Miller

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Two case studies depict ways in which mental imagery from a Jungian perspective influences writing.

Subjectivity And Academic Discourse: Apples, Cupcakes, And Beige, Frances Jo Grossman

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The relationship between intentional autobiographical reference and academic research yields a discourse called the writer-scholar's story of knowing.

Back Matter, Alice G. Brand

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Zoe Keithley, Gerd Bräuer, Larry Anderson, Deborah F. Van Hoorn, Susan Becker

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Reviews

Zoe Keithley. The Peaceable Classroom. (Mary Rose O'Reilley, 1993).

Gerd Bräuer. Presence of Mind: Writing and the Domain Beyond the Cognitive. (Alice G. Brand and Richard L. Graves, Eds., 1994).

Larry Anderson. A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness. (Nicholas Humphrey, 1992).

Deborah F. Van Hoorn. Writing from the Inner Self. (Elaine Farris Hughes, 1994).

Susan Becker. Reclaiming the Tacit Dimension: Symbolic Form in the Rhetoric of Silence. (George Kalamaras, 1994).

Earthworm Hermeneutics, Derek Owens

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

As an alternative to recent misreadings of boundary politics, a more responsible, outsider pedagogy needs to be cultivated.

The Perceptions Of Students With Mild Mental Retardation Regarding Their Present Program And Preparation For Future Employment, Shirl Carwile

Theses & Honors Papers

Two programs for students with mild mental retardation , a school-based program, and a community ­based instruction program were compared . The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover the perceptions of high school students with mild mental retardation about their present educational experiences and their preparation for future employment. Interviews of four students were obtained and examined to determine common themes among students and across programs .

The Relationship Between Education Adn Socialization Input And Social And Behavior Outcomes, In A Controlled Group Of Educable Mentally Handicapped, Joanne Marie Higgins

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The purpose of this research project was to study the socio-economics of a controlled group of educable retardates who had completed their formal education.

In 1965 the researcher investigated the mentally retarded students enrolled in the davenport, Iowa, Taylor and Marquette Schools and compared them to their parents and siblings. The pupil’s studies comprised three groups: (1_ a trainable group represented by pupils from 25 families; (2) a group of educable mentally handicapped students with known organic involvement represented by pupils from 165 families; and (3) a group of educable mentally handicapped pupils with no known organic involvement sufficient to …

A Study Of Three Cases Of Extreme Reading Disability, Dora Francis Hardy

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

The purpose of this study was (1) to relate three cases of severe reading disability in which the condition variously described as strephosymbolia, congenital alexia, or mirror vision has been considered a contributing cause of the reading handicaps; (2) to present the opinions held by various authors concerning such cases; and (3) to describe various types of remediation attempted for such cases.