A Structural Analysis Between Depression, Adaptability and Game Addiction Tendency in Out-of-school Adolescents According to Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choon Kyung Kim ◽  
Mi Suk Lee ◽  
Nam Yi Park ◽  
Min Kyu Cho
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Game Addiction ◽  
Out Of School

“If you think of the world as a piece of custard…”: gifted children's use of metaphor as a tool for conceptual reasoning

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Hymer
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Reasoning Abilities ◽  
The World ◽  
Conceptual Reasoning ◽  
Extension Activity ◽  
Out Of School

This small-scale qualitative study examines the transcript of a group enquiry conducted according to the practice of philosophical enquiry with children (e.g. Lipman, 1993; Cam, 1995; Fisher, 1998). The enquiry was one of several held fortnightly and out of school hours — as an optional extension activity — with a group of verbally able pre-adolescent children aged eight to twelve years. The transcript was subjected to an interpretive structural analysis, and a central metaphor was explored for its usefulness to the children as a tool for reasoning. Two competing repertoires of discourse (Sherrard, 1997) were identified, reflecting the children's tendency either to hold ideas or constructs as being essentially separate (the analysis repertoire) or as being susceptible to reconciliation (the synthesis repertoire). The central metaphor was seen to play the role of a ‘conceptual playground,’ permitting the children to exercise both their imaginations and their reasoning abilities as they struggled to reconcile the competing repertoires.

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