This paper describes the almost story as a story that overwhelms the author but does not wholly come across to the reader. It is a story that simultaneously excites and disappoints, intrigues and frustrates. Several teaching suggestions for helping students turn an almost story into a story are given, including encouraging students to experiment…

This book contends that we create the world we perceive because we select and edit reality to conform to our beliefs; that our cultural mind has come to a point where the dissonance between reality and false beliefs is so great that it is impossible to avoid the awareness that the world no longer makes sense; and that only once this awareness…

Encourages English teachers to provide surprises in their teaching and to permit students to have the joy of discovery. (DD)

Discusses the searching process for students attempting to obtain meaningful information about which to write. Presents methods and benefits of searching which improve students' technical writing. (MS)

Human expert problem-solving in science is defined and used to account for scientific discovery. These ideas are used to describe BACON.5, a machine expert problem solver that discovers scientific laws using data-driver heuristics and "expectations" such as symmetry. Implications of BACON.5 type research for traditional science education…

Article gives a practical guide to the implications of Piaget's writing for the practice of teaching. (Author/GB)

Through observation and first-hand experiences, children will become sensitive to their environment; and as they mature, their awareness will form the basis for intelligent action necessary to protect our natural resources. (Author)

A paper presented at annual Conference on English Education (7th, Syracuse, N.Y., March 29, 1969). (RD)

Discusses the uses of literacy as a process that enables people to perceive, discover, and communicate through the humanities and the arts. (RW)

A theoretical model depicting the mental process of inquiry is presented and discussed. It is mainly composed of givens, operations, transitional outcomes and terminal outcomes. The different mental paths followed as well as the various alternative outcomes are also discussed and a number of implications deduced. (Author)

Provides a model for the process of invention and illustrates it through an analysis of Shakespeare's 33rd sonnet. (DD)

Describes and provides examples for six approaches and factors related to serendipity in library research: coincidence; previent grace (i.e., the prior organization of information); synchronicity (i.e., hidden patterns and forces); perseverance; altamirage (i.e., idiosyncratic behaviors); and sagacity (i.e., intuition and skill). The stigma…

This discussion of the discovery process in science suggests that discoveries are often made by a pattern recognition process which includes elaboration of a perceived pattern involving development of a descriptive vocabulary, elucidation of mathematical relations and measures, development of measurement instruments and techniques, and deduction…