ABSTRACT
Complement the intellectualizmg and verbalizing that usually accompanies the discussion of abstract ideas by asking students to represent 'ideas' in a pictorial or diagrammatic form. This chapter aims to make abstract ideas more accessible and less intimidating, thus helping students to manipulate and understand ideas better. It also aims to tap into many students' well developed graphic skills, and to emphasize that learning can take place via pictorial representation. Students are asked individually to represent an abstract idea in pictorial, graphic or diagrammatic form. Refreshingly, this exercise is subsumed in subjectivity - it is clear that there is no single or correct way to visualize or depict an abstract concept. In the image, the student is clearly trying to show the essence of oligopoly - a small group of dominant producers in a market, with also a series of minor producers at large- totally dwarfed by the three dominant firms.
