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Geert Franzenburg – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2025
How can the use of metaphors promote sustainable resilience in an educational process? How can educators and pastoral workers facilitate transformative learning by promoting strategies for coping with challenges? The paper answers these questions from a religious and psychological perspective by applying a biographical approach. By evaluating the…
Descriptors: Self Control, Emotional Intelligence, Resilience (Psychology), Transformative Learning
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Jumaah, Ruaa Talal; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan Bin; Ali, Afida Mohamad – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The study aims at unraveling the conceptual metaphor underlying the English verb of visual perception "see" in fiction writing. It has two research questions: 1) What are the conceptual metaphors underlying the linguistic expressions of the English verb of visual perception "see" in fiction writing and 2) What are the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Fiction, Figurative Language, English
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Friedman, Victor J.; Robinson, Sarah; Egan, Mark; Jones, David R.; Rhew, Nicholas D.; Sama, Linda M. – Journal of Management Education, 2020
Collaborative inquiry and conversational learning are approaches to management education and learning in which participants construct knowledge together through dialogue. Both approaches advocate letting go of control to allow insight to emerge through free-flowing conversation, but little has been written about how to accomplish this.…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Cooperative Learning, Management Development, Meetings
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Donaldson, Jonan Phillip; Allen-Handy, Ayana – Educational Psychology Review, 2020
Metaphors are at the core of conceptualizations from which actions and practices in teaching and learning emerge. Much of the literature in the learning sciences and educational psychology research is based on assumptions emergent from conceptualizations of learning grounded in a "construction" metaphor of learning: meaning is…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Figurative Language, Transfer of Training, Empowerment
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Johann, Leonie; Groß, Jorge; Messig, Denis; Rusk, Fredrik – Education Sciences, 2020
By means of their pivotal role in the outbreak of a variety of diseases, such as, recently, COVID-19, the molecular aspects of cell membrane function have gained considerable attention from researchers in recent decades. The resulting information explosion and the growing interdisciplinary character of cell biology seems, however, to not be…
Descriptors: Cytology, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Molecular Biology
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Kouppanou, Anna – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
"Prosthesis" and the "human hand" have been terms used by various philosophers in order to describe the interaction that binds together the human being and the technical artefact -- Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida being among the most important of these philosophers. In Bernard Stiegler's philosophy, however, these notions…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Children, Child Development, Physiology
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Melhuish, Kathleen; Ellis, Brittney; Hicks, Michael D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2020
Binary operations are one of the fundamental structures underlying our number and algebraic systems. Yet, researchers have often left their role implicit as they model student understanding of abstract structures. In this paper, we directly analyze students' perceptions of the general binary operation via a two-phase study consisting of task-based…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Computation
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Yilmaz, Atike; Yetim, Gozde – International Education Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to determine the metaphoric perceptions of physically disabled and hearing impaired athletes concerning their branches and concepts about these branches. In this context, the sample of the study was comprised of 20 physically disabled and hearing impaired athletes playing in the basketball and football teams in Mus…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Physical Disabilities, Hearing Impairments, Athletes
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Coppola, William J. – Music Education Research, 2020
In this study I conduct a dramaturgical analysis to examine the performance of social identity among the members a competitive high school jazz band located in the western United States. Using dramaturgical theory (Goffman, E. 1959. "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life." Anchor Books.), which uses a metaphor with the theatre to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Musical Instruments, Figurative Language, Music Activities
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Compton-Lilly, Catherine F.; Rogers, Rebecca L.; Lewis Ellison, Tisha – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
In this meta-ethnography, the authors analyze the metaphors that inhabit highly cited examples of family literacy scholarship. Meta-ethnography is a methodology, as described by Noblit and Hare, in which metaphors are analyzed as linguistic tools; in this article, they are used to compare and synthesize understandings across existing ethnographic…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Family Literacy, Figurative Language, Comparative Analysis
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Bridget Turner Kelly; Milagros Castillo-Montoya; Rani Varghese; Ximena Zúñiga – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
Intergroup dialogue (IGD) is a critical dialogic pedagogy that calls for extraordinary care and labor. So, why as women of color (WOC), who expend disproportionate emotional labor in the academy, do we teach IGD? In this collaborative critical autoethnography, we braid our individual narratives through a critical collaborative autoethnography…
Descriptors: Researchers, Authors, Minority Group Teachers, Women Faculty
Rod Ellis; Carsten Roever; Natsuko Shintani; Yan Zhu – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Taking a psycholinguistic perspective, this book investigates how second language (L2) learners' pragmatic abilities in English can be measured. It complements and extends earlier work on the testing of implicit and explicit grammar. The authors present a set of tests they developed using both well-established methods of measuring pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Polišenská, Kamila; Chiat, Shula; Szewczyk, Jakub; Twomey, Katherine E. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Theories of language processing differ with respect to the role of abstract syntax and semantics vs surface-level lexical co-occurrence (n-gram) frequency. The contribution of each of these factors has been demonstrated in previous studies of children and adults, but none have investigated them jointly. This study evaluated the role of all three…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
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Kepoglu, Abdurrahman; Musa, Mihriay; Divrik, Gülsün – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2021
Physical education contributes greatly to the physical, psychological and intellectual development of individuals. The awareness of the students of the coaching department about the concept of physical education should basically be revealed. The aim of this study is to reveal the perceptions of students studying in the coaching department about…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletic Coaches, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Bahadir, Ferdi – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Professional knowledge courses are crucial in delivering teacher candidates the knowledge and skills that are required in the profession of teaching. This paper studies teacher candidates' metaphoric perceptions regarding the concept of professional knowledge courses. This study, which employed a model of qualitative research that is phenomenology…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies, Professionalism
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