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ERIC Number: EJ480226
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
Figuring Out a Scientific Understanding.
Sutton, Clive
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v30 n10 p1215-27 Dec 1993
Places analogy and metaphor within the wider context of all figurative language, and traces the relationship between that kind of expression and the supposedly literal and direct accounts of nature that scientists have built up. (PR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Language, Metaphors, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Analogies; Analogy
Note: Special Issue: The Role of Analogy in Science and Science Teaching