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The Private Eye - (5X) Looking / Thinking by Analogy:
A Guide to Developing the Interdisciplinary Mind.
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Response to the book:
"I'm very impressed. A really
exciting set of tools... to bring out the gifted
in everyone."
— Joseph Renzulli, Director, The National Research
Center on the Gifted and Talented
"After looking through the book, I felt like I'd
walked in the front door of heaven. What really impresses
me is the scientific learning that you've built into
observation, and the chance to draw. I think how you've
tied thinking by analogy and theorizing with the loupe
is spectacular."
— Ann H. Zwinger, naturalist and author of The
Mysterious Lands; Downcanyon
"I am mesmerized by your Book!!! Wow!!!"
— Marcy Fowler, teacher, Pasadena, CA
"...exceptionally ingenious and effective program
for science teaching. ... I am very conscious of the
importance of thoughtful, lively innovations that substantially
raise the students' interest and thus raise the educational
results. The Private Eye Project is the most promising
such innovation I have ever seen."
—Charles L. Remington, Professor of Biology and
Environmental Studies, Yale University; Curator, Yale
Natural History Museum
"This book takes the reader on a journey of discovery
that incorporates science, art, literature, and creative
thinking. The author leads the reader through the
creative process, quoting writers and scientists and
presenting solid scientific research. Open, study,
and explore this book and discover the treasures waiting
within."
— Dolores Choat, Science and Children (NSTA)
"I must tell you that your book has inspired me
to totally rethink my curriculum forever."
— Hill Horton, teacher, Ann Arbor, MI
"What a fantastically successful and effective program! I'm
tremendously impressed. It's the best, most innovative
program I've seen in a long time."
— Ola Edwards, Prof. of Biology, University of
Washington
Forthcoming:
The
Private Eye Companion Volume I
The
Private Eye Companion Volume II and Volume III
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Take
a sneak peek inside the book:
"On
a hot summer day, ten years ago, I'd been thinking about
the enormous power of the metaphor mind, the mind that sees
the world but through the lens and network of analogy. The
doors of my studio were open and bees sometimes swept in
and began banging their heads against the skylight. The bamboo
outside was rustling like taffeta skirts and it was an altogether
lovely day to be thinking. I glanced at my clay alligator
on a shelf and there, next to it, was a jeweler's loupe.
It was a dusty loupe, unused. A friend had given it to me
years back. I remembered how he'd shown me seed pods that
he kept in a box. Strange and exotic seed pods. So I'd bought
myself a jeweler's loupe and kept it out - in case I should
find some marvelous old seed pod beauty. Some of his seed
pods were from Africa... and I guess I was waiting, without
quite knowing it, for something that special, from that faraway,
to come along to look at with my loupe. I never thought to
look at the weeds and seeds sprouting in my own yard back
then... though, had I known... Africa, Asia, Latin America,
and hundreds of other unexplored worlds, were right out my
door, and in my very room! Years had passed. The loupe
sat. But, on this particular day, in July 1988, I was about
to make a discovery..."
From: The Private Eye - (5X)
Looking/Thinking by Analogy (Ruef, 2003, 1998, 1992
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