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50 Years of ERIC
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Tolstoy, Vygotsky, and the Making of Meaning.
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Berthoff, Ann E. – College Composition and Communication, 1978
Leo Tolstoy and Lev Vygotsky, like Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Maria Montessori, and Paulo Freire, base their educational philosophies on the heuristic power of language, the form-finding, and form-creating powers of the human mind. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Higher Education
The Problem of Problem Solving
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Berthoff, Ann E. – College Composition and Communication, 1971
The psychological inadequacies and political dangers of problem-solving as a pedagogical concept" are explored. (Author/DR)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, English Instruction, Information Theory, Problem Solving
Staying Viable.
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Berthoff, Ann E.; Berthoff, Warner B. – College Composition and Communication, 1980
A humorous glossary of psycholinguistic terminology. (DD)
Descriptors: Definitions, Glossaries, Higher Education, Humor
Rhetoric as Hermeneutic.
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Berthoff, Ann E. – College Composition and Communication, 1991
Asserts that it is as historical creatures that humans have the power of choice; language--the means of naming and renaming, or representing and articulating the options--provides the saving image of transformation. Argues that consciousness of the power of language liberates the imagination, the active mind with its power of memory and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Hermeneutics, Higher Education
Spiritual Sites of Composing: Introductory Remarks.
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Berthoff, Ann E. – College Composition and Communication, 1994
Introduces an interchange that considers the spiritual sites of composing. Considers the root meaning of religion as a binding force in society. (HB)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Higher Education, Mysticism