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Sever, Melih; Ozdemir, Seyhan; Jobson, Kate – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
The aim of this study is to explore and analyze metaphors constructed around academics, in both the contexts of the UK and Turkey, to see if general opinion on academics seems to be shifting from the well-known 'ivory-tower' reputation, and if the perception differs amongst sub-groups based on their varying amounts of exposure to the reality of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Figurative Language, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Wongthai, Nuntana – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The present study draws upon Conceptual Metaphor Theory, its findings revealing the core concepts of the current education system in Thailand. The data is gathered from fourteen handbooks concerning quality assurance in education published on the website of the Bureau of Higher Education Standards and Evaluation, Office of the Higher Education…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Linguistic Theory, Guides, Quality Assurance
Hammond, Lindsey; Adams, Philip; Rubin, Paul G.; Ness, Erik C. – Educational Policy, 2022
Intermediary organizations play an increasingly important role in public policy related to higher education, particularly related to the completion agenda. This study addresses strategies employed by intermediary organizations to communicate to policymakers regarding college completion. Using rhetorical analysis, we examine 72 documents to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Attainment, Higher Education, Policy Analysis
Schaillée, Hebe; Derom, Inge; Solenes, Oskar; Straume, Solveig; Burgess, Beth; Jones, Vanessa; Renfree, Gillian – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
Research on Generation Z's (Gen Z) sport education is limited in scope. This study explores Gen Z's perceptions of gender equity in sport, with a focus on topic areas that warrant attention in sport management higher education courses to increase awareness around gender inequality. This study of Gen Z students across four European countries,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Generational Differences, Gender Bias, Athletics
Kohler, Alan Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Metonymic and metaphoric language are thoroughly present in everyday language, so much so that they hold in themselves strong explanatory capacity to uncover and even influence underlying individual or social/cultural ideological systems and beliefs about the world around us (Catalano & Waugh, 2013; 2014; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). The…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Higher Education, Language Usage, Figurative Language
Bager-Elsborg, Anna; Greve, Linda – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
It has been suggested that metaphors have a crucial influence on the way we perceive and construct the world. As a result, metaphor analysis has been used as a way to reveal, analyse and understand conceptions of teaching in higher education. This paper introduces a different way to analyse metaphors for teaching than the ones previously used in…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Management Development, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods
Kaban, Abdullatif – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
Social media, one of the modern communications and socialization channels, has become one of the indispensable tools of education. This study, it was aimed to reveal the perceptions of teachers, students, and parents about the concept of "social media" through metaphor. In this study, which used a phenomenology design, which is one of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Graff, Daniel; Clark, Mark A. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
Universities increasingly incorporate multidisciplinary design projects into their curriculum to better prepare their students for the labor market. In these projects, student team members of various disciplinary backgrounds develop new product or service concepts for organizational partners. This structure enables students to learn not only from…
Descriptors: Design, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects, Teamwork
Dunworth, Katie; Grimshaw, Trevor; Iwaniec, Janina; McKinley, Jim – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Within the currently diverse UK higher education environment, one important aspect of learning is the development of intercultural competence. The study that informs this paper investigated the ways intercultural competence was perceived as being enhanced or inhibited through current language and educational practices at a university that…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Luckett, Kathy – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This is a theoretical paper that addresses the challenge of educational access to the Humanities and Social Sciences. It plots a theoretical quest to develop an explicit pedagogy to give "disadvantaged" students in the Humanities ways of working successfully with texts. In doing so it draws on Bernstein, Moore and Maton's work to…
Descriptors: Humanities, Social Sciences, Disadvantaged Youth, Inferences
Pate, Joseph A.; Johnson, Corey W. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2013
Metaphors are an effective pedagogical tool used within the classroom to enhance and facilitate learning and growth. This article draws attention to the intentional, and sometimes even unintentional, use of metaphors with regard to what metaphors open up and afford, and how metaphors are created or formed. Specific examples of metaphors are…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Intention, Language Usage, Teaching Methods
Franz, Melanie; Feld, Timm C. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
Many European countries are currently witnessing an increased development and expansion of continuing higher education at universities. In Germany, this development has until now been rather modest in comparison to countries such as England, France, Finland and the United States. The status of continuing education still seems just as unclear as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
Mika, Carl Te Hira; Tiakiwai, Sarah-Jane – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
In the face of land confiscations and other forms of imperialism characteristic of the 19th century in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the second Maori King Tawhiao devised a number of sayings that seem at first glance to be entirely mythical. Highly metaphorical and poetic, they appear to refer, as Bakhtin would have it in his discussion of the epic, to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Figurative Language
Hallett, Fiona; Eryaman, Mustafa Yunus – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2014
This chapter presents an analysis of the lived experiences of academic mobility for three educational researchers, at various stages of their research career, from different European national contexts. Lived experiences were explored by examining the metaphors used by each educational researcher to convey their experiences of academic mobility.…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Figurative Language
Singh, Michael – Education Sciences, 2017
This paper reports on the ground-breaking research in the study of languages in doctoral education. It argues for democratizing the production and dissemination of original contributions to knowledge through activating and mobilizing multilingual Higher Degree Researchers' (HDRs) capabilities for theorizing through them using their full linguistic…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Doctoral Programs, Language Research, Higher Education