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Knowledge Acquisition or Participation in Communities of Practice? Academics' Metaphors of Teaching and Learning at the University
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Wegner, Elisabeth; Nückles, Matthias – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Learning has been described by two conceptual metaphors: as individual acquisition of knowledge ("acquisition metaphor"), and as an enculturation into a subject community ("participation metaphor"). On the other hand, academics' conceptions of teaching are usually reported to vary between teacher and student orientation. In…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Figurative Language, Learning Processes, Teacher Attitudes