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ERIC Number: EJ611205
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
Teaching Is Like...?
Hagstrom, David; Hubbard, Ruth; Hurtig, Caryl; Mortola, Peter; Ostrow, Jill; White, Valerie
Educational Leadership, v57 n8 p24-27 May 2000
A group of teacher educators discovered that creating root metaphors (for example, teaching = bread making) connected them with the enjoyable and comforting aspects of their profession. Reading one another's metaphors initiated connections, images, ideas, and insights that could be shared with their preservice students. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Experience, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Imagery, Interdisciplinary Approach, Metaphors, Schools of Education, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Educators, Teaching (Occupation)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Similes; Teacher Renewal