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Vasconcelos, Teresa – 1997
Using as a starting point the painting "Las Meninas" by Velasquez, which depicts the painter within his painting, this paper discusses the interpretive paradigm in research and, within it, the value of metaphor as a research tool. Example situations from an ethnographic study of a master teacher and her kindergarten in Lisbon are used to…
Descriptors: Community, Foreign Countries, Interpretive Skills, Kindergarten