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Kupferman, David W. – Policy Futures in Education, 2018
This paper considers the ways in which the words "school" and "education" are conflated in the social imaginary, and what the effects of this conflation in meaning and purpose are both theoretically and in practice. It is not difficult to see the ways in which these two terms are used almost synonymously, and uncritically. Yet…
Descriptors: Schools, Education, Language Usage, Figurative Language
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Mashhady, Habibollah; Noura, Mahbube – English Language Teaching, 2012
Throughout the history, translation has played an important role in conveying thoughts and knowledge from one nation to other nations. Apart from this importance, the act of translating is not simply changing a message from the source language into the target one; translation is an act of problem-solving. Sometimes it is difficult to solve…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Translation, Problem Solving, Second Languages
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Gavriely-Nuri, Dalia – Journal of Peace Education, 2009
Combining principles of peace education and political discourse analysis, this study dwells on one powerful metaphorical mechanism engaged in by Israeli political leaders: war-normalizing metaphors, a mechanism for framing war as part of human nature and normal life. Six core semantic fields were identified as particularly useful "raw…
Descriptors: Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Peace, Foreign Countries
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Guzzi, Rodolfo; Scarpanti, Stefano; Ballista, Giovanni; Di Nicolantonio, Walter – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
Computer science provides with virtual laboratories, places where one can merge real experiments with the formalism of algorithms and mathematics and where, with the advent of multimedia, sounds and movies can also be added. In this paper we present a method, based on principles of formal ontology, allowing one to develop interactive educational…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Semantics, Figurative Language, Knowledge Level