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Peer reviewedBuchmann, Margret; Schwille, John – American Journal of Education, 1983
Looks at what is entailed when education and experience are regarded as equivalent. Identifies faulty inferences resulting from learning by experience. Considers how experience can close avenues to conceptual and social change. Argues that ideas based on secondhand information are more likely than firsthand experience to manifest both the real and…
Descriptors: Education, Epistemology, Experience, Experiential Learning
Peer reviewedAraujo, Nara – Journal of Black Studies, 1994
Explores literary universe of Caribbean women writers, discusses contributions as reflective of their self-image, and examines Caribbean literature as collective identity of region. Author explains use of writing as means of linking events that reveal experiences of Caribbean women through more detailed analysis of two novels: "Moi, Tituba…
Descriptors: Authors, Females, Feminism, Interpersonal Relationship
Wallace, Doris B. – 1990
The literary field offers an especially rich array of examples of the insight phenomenon and demonstrates that insight experiences occur outside the problem-solving paradigm of cognitive science. Analysis shows that the seemingly unitary moment of insight is actually a microgenetic sequence (a rapid sequence of developmental change) deeply…
Descriptors: Authors, Cognitive Processes, Creative Writing, Creativity
Download full textBenton, Michael – 1993
Since the 1950s, literary study has experienced a major paradigm shift. M. H. Abrams' notion that the author, reader, and the signified world are arranged like satellites around a stable text has been succeeded by one that acknowledges the reader to be a central determinant in any "reading" of a text. Five themes related to reader…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Literacy
Peer reviewedAtwater, Deborah F. – Journal of Black Studies, 1984
Analyzes professional and methodological problems facing Black scholars in the communications field. Calls for the development of new rhetorical tools that would be more applicable to the Black experience than existing, traditional methods. Considers ways of meeting both community and personal goals, and presents a Black communication impact…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Studies, Black Teachers, College Faculty
Seawell, Mary Ann – Today's Minorities, 1994
Reports on the investigations and writings of Stanford assistant professor of English Robert Allen Warrior concerning published writings by American Indian authors back to the 1760s. Introduces two of Warrior's current projects: comparing American Indian authors John Joseph Matthews and Vine Deloria Jr., and examining writings of Indian activists…
Descriptors: Activism, American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indian Studies
