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Hüseyin Kocasaraç; Nokulunga Sithabile Ndlovu – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
This study explored and compared metaphorical perceptions of "Innovative Education" among 100 in-service teachers from Turkey and South Africa during the 2020-2021 academic year. A phenomenological research design was adopted for this qualitative investigation. Teachers accessed an online platform to complete the open-ended prompt:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Ahu Taneri; Nilgün Dag – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
This study examines the metaphors about "aesthetics" produced by 67 primary school teacher candidates at a state university in Turkey. The research is a basic qualitative study. In the determination of the study group of the research, the easily accessible sampling method, one of the purposeful sampling methods, was preferred. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary Schools, Aesthetics
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Suzan Canli; Hasan Demirtas – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2024
The present study aimed to analyze the views of pre-service teachers, expressed through metaphors, about the adequacy of mentors and teaching practice schools and their recommendations for effective mentoring. A phenomenological design was adopted, and participants included 105 mentees. The current mentors and teaching practice schools had…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Evaluation, Mentors, Figurative Language
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Muhammed Kürsat Demirgil; Mustafa Korucu; Ebru Ezberci Çevik – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2025
The aim of the present study is to examine the perceptions of the 7th grade students at the level of lower secondary education regarding the concepts of traditional games and digital games through metaphors. The qualitative research method was adopted in this research study. This study also adopts the phenomenological design to explore the common…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Georgios Miaris; Sara Löfgren; Helena Hansson – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2024
Purpose: This study aimed to uncover the values that underlie farmers' strategic choices for business development. In particular, we uncovered farmers' values related to business development through farm diversification and compared these with values regarding business development through non-diversified farm activities. Methodology: We considered…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Decision Making
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Trudy Keil – Critical Education, 2025
Amid the global neoliberal assault on public education, teachers and their unions are called upon to resist detrimental educational reforms. Employing photo-elicitation focus groups, this paper explored ten Saskatchewan teacher activists' perceptions of their political resistance to neoliberalism both within their union and beyond. Utilizing a…
Descriptors: Activism, Unions, Resistance (Psychology), Neoliberalism
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Anna Backman – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This study presents how five five-year-olds express different ways of experiencing the multifaceted phenomenon of shadow, when reading and listening to picturebooks about shadow in a Swedish preschool. This is studied with attention to children's perspectives on shadow as it appears in conversations about the picturebooks. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Picture Books, Childrens Attitudes
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Lucinda McKnight; Cara Shipp – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share findings from empirically driven conceptual research into the implications for English teachers of understanding generative AI as a "tool" for writing. Design/methodology/approach: The paper reports early findings from an Australian National Survey of English teachers and interrogates the…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Writing Strategies, English Instruction, Language Usage
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Yerko Muñoz-Salinas – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
This qualitative study, based on semi-structured interviews, analyses the emotions of six (n = 6) pre-service teachers (PSTs) enrolled in a Chilean full-year education programme through metaphors they used to describe the process by which they became professionals. Findings suggest that pre-service teachers understand emotions as burdens, tools,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Psychological Patterns, Professional Identity, Figurative Language
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Sara J. Wahlberg; Jesper Haglund; Niklas M. Gericke – Research in Science Education, 2025
This study provides insights into the use of metaphors in protein synthesis descriptions in upper secondary chemistry and biology textbooks. Data were collected from seven Swedish textbooks and analyzed with the Metaphor Identification Protocol and categorized within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The results reveal two main parallel…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Textbooks, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science
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Kayvan Shakoury; Frank Boers – Curriculum Journal, 2025
This article reports an investigation into how a procedure to enhance their metaphor awareness assisted a group of university students in Canada in reflecting on multicultural society. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 50 students who were invited to (a) express their views of Canadian multicultural society, (b) evaluate…
Descriptors: Reflection, Figurative Language, Cultural Pluralism, College Students
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Alix Seigneuric; Carsten Elbro; Jane Oakhill; Hakima Megherbi – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
A referential metaphor is a cohesive tie between lexical items that are metaphorically related, (e.g. "'The seagull' took the bread from the coffee table. No one heard the 'thief'"). The reference from "the thief" back to "the seagull" is metaphorical because thieves are human. The present article presents arguments…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Figurative Language, Reading Processes, Inferences
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Vafa Savaskan; Nursah Özer – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) initially emerged as a term in the field of computer science. In the subsequent years, this concept transcended its origins and became relevant across various domains of human life. Nowadays, it's possible to encounter AI in nearly every aspect of human life. In this context, it's considered noteworthy…
Descriptors: Turkish, Artificial Intelligence, Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers
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Deb Verhoeven; Ben Eltham – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
Universities and management consultants are locked in a "danse macabre." We turn to the vampire genre to elaborate on the relationship of consulting companies to the university sector, focusing on the University of Alberta in Canada and Monash University in Australia. We are academics with long experience of the consequences of change…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Consultants, Organizational Change
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Ayse Alkan; Ezgi Pelin Yildiz – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2024
The main goal of this study is to reveal special talented primary school students' perceptions of artificial intelligence, one of the popular concepts of recent times, through metaphors. In this study, the phenomenological design, which is within the scope of qualitative research, was used. In this study, Türkiye Science and Art Center included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gifted, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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