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Baer, Andrea – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
As librarians' instructional roles continue to evolve, metaphor can be a powerful tool through which to reflect on and at times to reframe librarians' evolving educational roles and pedagogical approaches, as they consider beliefs and assumptions about teaching and learning and about their unfolding work and identities. This article explores this…
Descriptors: Librarians, Role, Figurative Language, Library Instruction
Silvia, Paul J.; Beaty, Roger E. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
The present research examined the varieties of poor metaphors to gain insight into the cognitive processes involved in generating creative ones. Drawing upon data from two published studies as well as a new sample, adults' open-ended responses to different metaphor prompts were categorized. Poor metaphors fell into two broad clusters.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Intelligence, Personality Traits, Experience
Depicting Dementia: Representations of Cognitive Health and Illness in Ten Picturebooks for Children
Caldwell, Elizabeth F.; Falcus, Sarah; Sako, Katsura – Children's Literature in Education, 2021
It is estimated that a third of children know someone living with dementia, and there are now many picturebooks for young children that help to explain the changes dementia can bring to family life. Despite their number, there has been little examination of what these books communicate about health and illness. To address this, the current study…
Descriptors: Dementia, Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Health
Cinar, Derya – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
Today, the perceptions of individuals who are performing the teaching profession are very important. The purpose of this research is; to investigate the metaphorical perceptions that teachers have regarding the concept of the teaching profession and to compare the metaphorical perceptions of classroom teachers and branch teachers. The research is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Figurative Language
Yadigaroglu, Mustafa – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
The role of science teachers in the formation of students' approaches to chemistry subjects is very important. Metaphors can be used as a data collection tool to determine what meanings science teachers, who are preparing to step into the teaching profession, attribute to some concepts. It is important to know how chemistry is perceived by science…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Scientific Concepts, Chemistry
Long, Madeleine; Shukla, Vishakha; Rubio-Fernandez, Paula – Child Development, 2021
Similes require two different pragmatic skills: appreciating the intended similarity and deriving a scalar implicature (e.g., "Lucy is like a parrot" normally implies that Lucy is not a parrot), but previous studies overlooked this second skill. In Experiment 1, preschoolers (N = 48; ages 3-5) understood "X is like a Y" as an…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Pragmatics, Preschool Children, Child Language
Cheng, Gong – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study intends to provide a semantic analysis of metaphorical expressions containing the body-part term "heart" in Chinese and English. The discussion of these expressions revolves around four perceived roles of the heart. It is suggested that the metaphorical consequences have a bodily or psychological basis on our hearts. The…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Figurative Language, Language Patterns
Zhanna Zalledinova; Kunipa Ashinova; Almash Seidikenova; Gulnar Alipbayevna Karibayeva – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
The article presents the results of a comprehensive study of the complex cognitive-linguistic mechanisms underlying the formation and representation of spiritual-philosophical concepts in J. O'Donohue's "Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World" (1997). Drawing on cognitive linguistics, philosophy, and cultural studies, the…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Spiritual Development, Figurative Language, Imagery
Valentina Bambini; Giacomo Ranieri; Luca Bischetti; Biagio Scalingi; Chiara Bertini; Irene Ricci; Walter Schaeken; Paolo Canal – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Psycholinguistic research on metaphor has focused on verbal material. Yet, metaphors frequently occur in a multimodal format, blending words and pictures to convey meaning. Here we compared verbal and multimodal metaphors by using item pairs where stimulus one was always a word (e.g., "language" in the metaphorical conditions and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis
Jaber Kamali; Muhammet Furkan Alpat; Aras Bozkurt – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2024
This study explores university educators' perspectives on their alignment with artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, considering activity theory (AT), which forms the theoretical underpinning of this study. To do so, 37 educators from a higher education institution were selected to write their metaphors about AI ethics alignment, out of which 11…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Apostolos Koutropoulos; Bonnie Stewart; Lenandlar Singh; Sandra Sinfield; Tom Burns; Sandra Abegglen; Keith Hamon; Sarah Honeychurch; Aras Bozkurt – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2024
With the precipitous changes of the platform formerly known as Twitter, brought on by the change of ownership in late 2022, many networked educators sought, and continue to seek, new digital spaces to continue fostering and developing their digital practice. The authors of this article had all been actively networked on Twitter, and wanted to…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Social Media, Technology Uses in Education, Communities of Practice
Skrefsrud, Thor-André – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2020
The idea that intercultural understanding should be based on in-depth knowledge about the other continues to capture the imagination of policy makers, practitioners, and researchers. According to this line of thinking, intercultural understanding is about creating a secure way of reducing cultural complexity, aiming to overcome what is perceived…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Awareness, Figurative Language, Teacher Role
Davis, Robert A.; Conroy, James C.; Clague, Julie – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2020
This essay examines a longstanding and recurrent metaphor in the representation of schools in modern society: the school as factory. Tracing this figure to the rise of philanthropic schools provided by factory owners from the early stages of the British industrial revolution, the essay surveys its uses both in the historical sources and in later…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries
Sözer, Mehmet Akif; Sel, Burcu – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to analyze the perceptions of the individuals of different ages about the concepts of teacher-manager-school by means of metaphors. Phenomenology method, one of qualitative research form, and convenience sampling have been used in this study. The study group consisted of 210 participants with different age levels. Research…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Figurative Language, Gender Differences, Teachers
Bulut, Turkay; Almabrouk, Najah – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
What makes literary texts attractive to the reader is its ability to convey meanings through different indirect ways known as literary devices. These function as techniques adding aesthetical effects to the text. One of many devices is wordplay--a figure of speech used by people as part of their everyday communication. This research paper aims at…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Classics (Literature), Literary Devices, Literary Criticism