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ERIC Number: EJ307305
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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On Discipline Stripping: Difficulties in the Application of Humanistic Metaphors to Educational Phenomena.
Milburn, Geoffrey
Canadian Journal of Education, v9 n4 p361-75 Fall 1984
Identifies and discusses two difficulties in application of humanities metaphors to educational phenomena: lack of criteria to assist in metaphor selection and transferring systems of discourse from a humanity to education in conditions in which the receiver is unfamiliar with the original sources. (NEC)
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Educational Research, Educational Theories, Humanities, Intellectual Disciplines, Metaphors, Problems, Writing Difficulties
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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