In this case, the prof I was speaking with said that the students would take in the words, which would make sense in sentences--like data--but couldn't turn them into images in their heads. So when discussing a poem, the prof would ask what the students "saw" from the description, and the students literally didn't understand how to do the exercise until he started it for them. The opposite of that--what I'm calling imagination in context--is the ability to turn words from data into images or emotions.
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Date: 2008-11-21 03:54 am (UTC)In this case, the prof I was speaking with said that the students would take in the words, which would make sense in sentences--like data--but couldn't turn them into images in their heads. So when discussing a poem, the prof would ask what the students "saw" from the description, and the students literally didn't understand how to do the exercise until he started it for them. The opposite of that--what I'm calling imagination in context--is the ability to turn words from data into images or emotions.
Does that make sense?