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Subject: Abstract Thought Author: Melodie Miller [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 20:25:01 02/10/08 Sun This weekend’s class discussion was very interesting to me. I was particularly interested in the comments regarding abstract thought. After class I began to think about possible implications of this in the classroom and how the concepts of concrete and abstract thinking might impact classroom learning and instruction. In my job as a counselor, I have sometimes mistaken a client’s failure to “follow through” as resistance and later discovered that this was not resistance, but that the client did not fully understand the question/suggestion because the information was presented in a way that was too abstract for him/her to understand. This line of thinking prompted me to wonder if this happens in the classroom. If so, it would seem that this could possibly impact the learning process, just as it does the therapy process. Has anyone ever experienced this? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]