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McGarr, Oliver – Teaching Education, 2023
The metaphors used by teachers to explain the nature of student learning and student difficulty can reveal a great deal about how teachers conceive the teaching and learning process. This is an important area of research as it can shed light on how they see their role in the learning process and how they should intervene to assist students in…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language, Learning Processes
McMahon, Samantha; Stacey, Meghan; Harwood, Valerie; Labib, Nada; Wong, Alexandra; Daniels-Mayes, Sheelagh – Critical Studies in Education, 2023
In both academic and policy spaces, learning is often cast as lifelong, dynamic, constructive and in particular, agentic. Despite this focus students' voices are rarely privileged in these spaces -- especially in policy. We respond to this oversight by deploying Foucault's theories of knowledge to explore how students understand themselves as…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Self Concept
Shana, Zuhrieh A.; El Shareef, Marwan A. – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This paper is a quasi-experimental investigation into the effectiveness of using analogy in teaching new and unfamiliar physics concepts to students enrolled in a British curriculum school in the United Arab Emirates. The students (N = 34) were randomly assigned to one of two groups: the control group (N = 17) following the traditional teaching…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Language Usage, Figurative Language
Thomas, Gregory P. – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
Problems persist with physics learning in relation to students' understanding and use of representations for making sense of physics concepts. Further, students' views of physics learning and their physics learning processes have been predominantly found to reflect a "surface" approach to learning that focuses on mathematical aspects of…
Descriptors: Physics, Metacognition, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Crick, Ruth Deakin; Grushka, Kath – Curriculum Journal, 2009
The focus in this article is on the role of symbol and metaphor in the development of student self-awareness and engagement in the process of learning. It draws on a case-study which explored the process of an inquiry-based learning project in an Indigenous learning centre in a school in New South Wales, Australia. The data used for this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Animals, Figurative Language