The Thinking of students: Creativity: A Key to Understanding

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 350-351
Author(s):  
Diane Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
University Of Buffalo ◽  
The University

Recently, in a graduate course that I was taking at the University of Buffalo, we were discussing and presenting ways to implement the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989). One of the suggestions made to encourage communication in mathematics was to have students write about mathematics. Using journals, which I have done with my students, was discussed. However, something I had not tried was also suggested, which was to ask students either to write a short story or joke or to create a cartoon about some aspect of mathematics.

Promoting Local Change: Models for Implementing NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards

1992 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Mary M. Hatfield ◽  
Jack Price
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Change Models ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

For more than thirty years the mathematics education programs of the United States have been the subject of proposals for change. Such efforts as those of the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG), the University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics (UICSM), and the Madison Project were well intentioned but fell short of attaining the anticipated reform.

INTERVIEW WITH PETINA GAPPAH

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Faith Mkwesha
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
First Language ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The Third ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The University ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
University Of Zimbabwe

This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016).  Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.

IMAGERY AND EMOTIONS IN THE PIANO PIECE „THE SICK DOLL“ FROM CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF P . I TCHAIKOVSKY

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
Smilena Smilkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Sound Image ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Art Pedagogy

The proposed material examines the creative task of students majoring in Social Pedagogy at the University „Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov“ in Burgas, and studying the discipline Art Pedagogy – Part 1 – Music. In the course of the lecture course students get acquainted with the elements of musical expression, as a means of figurative representations and impact of music, with different techniques concerning individual musical activities, with the endless and diverse opportunities that music provides in the use of art pedagogy for social work teachers.Verbal interpretation of music is a necessary component when working with children with special educational needs, at risk and in the norm. Looking at Tchaikovsky’s short and extremely figurative piano piece „The Sick Doll“ from his charming „Children’s Album“, in the form of a short story, tale or essay, students express their personal vision, feeling and transformation of the musical image. The aim of the task is to transcribe the sound image into a verbal one. This requires speed, flexibility and logic in thinking, through imagination and creativity in its manifestation. Children love to listen, especially when they are involved. In search of the right way to solve problems and situations, future social educators could successfully benefit from the conversion of sound into words, according to the needs and deficits of the individual or group.

scholarly journals NARRATIVE TEXTS IN THE TEACHING BULGARIAN TO FOREIGN STUDENTS AS A POSSIBILITY TO DEVELOP THE INTERCULTURAL AWARENESS AND COMPETENCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1665-1669
Author(s):  
Mariya Genova ◽  
Lidiya Kavrakova
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
The University

The main purpose of foreign university students during studying Bulgarian is reaching a level of communicative abilities, i.e. using the language successfully in different settings and situations. Achieving this purpose requires the use of effective teaching methods and teaching techniques which rely not only on the language skills of the university students, but also on their general knowledge of the world and knowledge in the area of human interactions.This article explores the possibility to include narrative texts from the modern Bulgarian literature in the teaching process as a tool to educate the students during the early stage of studying Bulgarian. Meeting certain narrative texts or abstracts from different genres is what helps the students feel emotionally and socially closer to the Bulgarian language. This creates a specific emotional atmosphere during improving one's skills in a foreign language and helps in the process of “discovering” the Bulgarian culture. This activates the thought pattern of understanding the basic and unavoidable cultural differences but also cultural similarities and also motivates the students from other countries to improve their language skills.The authors of this article share their experience: choosing a narrative text, preparing such texts from their successful use in the classroom, using certain techniques and interactive means for adequate understanding of such texts by foreign students. The results are also described, as far as learning and managing lexical material, syntax structures and intonation details in Bulgarian is concerned.We analyze our work with the short story “From Wednesday to Monday” by Maria Doneva, which aims to “provoke” the active language perception of the students (including both grammar and reading comprehension skills in learning the days of the week and improving the use of past tense).The second narrative included in the article is “A smaller bedtime story” by Ludmil Stanev is presented to the students in the form of role-playing reading. This happens during a national holiday of the Bulgarian alphabet.

Escalations : stories

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Stephen Haynie
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
Potential Break ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Sliding Scale ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The stories in "Escalations" cover a range of formal and dramatic content and operate on a sliding scale with regards to realism and surrealism: a woman waits in the darkness of her home for her husband, gun in hand, to investigate a potential break-in; a distracted husband realizes he has mistakenly returned from the grocery store with a woman who is not his wife; a small town's peacetime celebration leads to a disastrous dove infestation. Other stories foreground the manner of their telling: a surveillance team is contracted to follow a mysterious woman, only to find their desire for explanation and discovery delayed and thwarted; a middle-aged man's heroic rescue of a drowning child is ignored by the pool-side audience's criticism of his technique. Regardless the material or the narrative approach to the material, each story explores the conflicts that arise as characters navigate the tumultuous co-existence of both a private and public life. My critical introduction, "Missing Persons: Character Reduction and Recalcitrance in the Short Story," argues that a study of the concept of character in the short story distinguishes key issues of narrative ideology and craft that must be considered if one is to accept the short story on its own terms. Borrowing Austin M. Wright's term for how a work's material resists the shaping influence of its form, and extending his scope beyond issues of structure and closure, I propose that the short story demonstrates significant recalcitrance when it comes to the "visibility" of character. In the same way that a literary work becomes trivial when its form is entirely perceived, so do characters lose their vitality and mystery when they are completely understood. My critical introduction will examine the ways in which the short story limits, delays, and obscures the exposure of its characters as a method of productive resistance. It will ultimately argue that when character “visibility” and exposure is reduced or diminished, the character is more defined by the situation in which they are read than by our knowledge and understanding of them as individuals.

Los amarres de la lengua: Spanish Exiles, Puerto Rican Intellectuals, and the Battle over Spanish, 1942–2016

2019 ◽  
pp. 126-143
Author(s):  
Lena Burgos-Lafuente
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Short Story ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
University Of Puerto Rico ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University ◽  
Pedro Salinas

The chapter provides a genealogy of the 2016 CILE (Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española), during which the Spanish officialdom celebrated Puerto Rico's linguistic ties to Spain as a 21st-century mercantile ploy. I review the language debates that raged in Puerto Rico in the 1940s, examining Pedro Salinas' 1948 Commencement Speech at the University of Puerto Rico, which would become his famed "Defensa del lenguaje"; revisiting Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín's 1953 speech "La personalidad puertorriqueña en el Estado Libre Asociado"; and ending with a brief coda on Ana Lydia Vega's 1981 short story "Pollito Chicken," to reflect on the positions shared by both Spanish exiles to the Caribbean and local intellectuals regarding language as a self-evident vessel of identity. The main argument is that a rhetoric of defense, crystallized in the 1940s, was redeployed by successive and presumptively opposite segments of the intelligentsia.

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