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Patchen, Terri; Crawford, Teresa – Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
This study examines the relationship between epistemological beliefs and perceptions of practice through the analysis of teacher-generated metaphors. In a multilevel qualitative examination of the self-descriptive metaphors of 32 working teachers, the authors uncovered a dissonance between teachers' metaphors and their epistemological positions.…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Focus Groups, Figurative Language, Epistemology