| Autor: |
Clouse, R. Wilburn, Goodin, Terry, Aniello, Joseph, McDowell, Noel, McDowell, Darlene |
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American Journal of Management; 2013, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p79-92, 14p |
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Research conducted over the last half century has revealed that optimal learning takes place in the brain when both the left-brain and the right brain work in balance. Educators can intentionally arouse the activation of one hemisphere of the brain over the other through the use of right brain strategies in language learning. These strategies, including analogy, metaphor, synthesis, and imagery connect the two separate thought processes of the brain, linking the sequential analytical knowledge of the left brain with the conceptual patterns and images of the right brain. In 1997 Clouse and colleagues developed a teaching strategy called "Whole-Part-Whole," where the learning is tied directly with the framework of the learner. Through "just in time teaching," the student learns the parts of a opened-ended case. The recursive design allows students to recreate a new "whole," which becomes new applied knowledge. The whole-brain theory and the Whole-Part-Whole strategy of learning were used as the basis for an assignment at Vanderbilt University in which graduate students were asked to write a paper using metaphors to describe leadership skills of a leader that they knew. Students were required to tie the metaphor to leadership theory. Students were very creative in the development of metaphors to describe leaders that they enjoyed and admired. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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