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Sensekerci, Erkan – World Journal of Education, 2022
The aim of the present study is to examine postgraduate theses and published articles on "analysis of metaphorically used words in discourse" in the field of social studies education in Turkey by document analysis method. Within the scope of the research, The National Thesis Center and Dergipark databases were surveyed. The survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Teaching, Social Studies, Figurative Language
Weller, Martin – University of British Columbia Press, 2022
Never before has technology played such a central role in education. In 2020, seemingly over night, technology took centre stage in the delivery of not just some education, but all education and the metaphors to describe this time leaned heavily on catastrophic terms of revolution, tsunami, and disruption. But why do apocalyptic metaphors abound…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Language Usage, Figurative Language
Monthon Kanokpermpoon – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Social media is widely used in many different sectors worldwide. In language education, it can impact students' language learning, and students may have diverse opinions about its use. This study aimed to explore how Thai university students conceptualise social media and their perceptions of it. An elicitation task, "social media is like ……
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language
Marianna Kyriacou; Cecilie Rummelhoff; Franziska Köder – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objective: ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impacts pragmatic communication abilities in children, including their understanding of verbal irony. This study aims to investigate whether adults with ADHD experience similar challenges in interpreting ironic statements, and to examine the role of executive attention abilities in accounting…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Figurative Language, Adults, Executive Function
Matthew Landers – Higher Education for the Future, 2025
This article presents a brief overview of the state-of-the-art in large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and discusses the difficulties that these technologies create for educators with regard to assessment. Making use of the 'arms race' metaphor, this article argues that there are no simple solutions to the 'AI problem'. Rather, this author…
Descriptors: Ethics, Cheating, Plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence
Yesim Ozansak Topcu; Buket Karadag; Gul Guler – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
The study used phenomenology to examine teacher candidates' metaphorical perceptions for measurement and evaluation practices in distance education. 210 teacher candidates at a foundation university in Istanbul were included in the study group. Researchers collected data using a three-part form. The first part gathered demographic information, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Figurative Language
Xing Hu; Wen Gong; Martin Cortazzi – European Journal of Education, 2025
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly becomes integral to educational development, understanding how future educators perceive AI Education (AIEd) is crucial for the effective implementation of AI in school curricula to embed AI technologies throughout the age ranges of kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12). The present study employed elicited…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Artificial Intelligence
Gherardi, Silvia; Benozzo, Angelo – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
This paper dwells on the metaphor of "shadow organising" for exploring what happens in the space of the 'not-yet data'. It wonders what we do to 'data' and what 'data' do to us, to our subjectivities as professionals. It deals with elusive knowledges and how professionals construct what counts as 'data' and what is discarded as…
Descriptors: Data, Researchers, Research Methodology, Figurative Language
Sahin, Ahmet – SAGE Open, 2021
This study investigated teachers' use of humor in school settings. Eleven lower secondary school teachers from different branches volunteered in this qualitative study. I collected data through individual, face-to-face interviews and used content and descriptive analysis methods for data analysis. In conclusion, the participants mostly said that…
Descriptors: Humor, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Szepietowska, Ewa Malgorzata; Filipiak, Sara – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: The ability to understand figurative language, including metaphors and proverbs, decreases with age, although the phenomenon is not universal. Cognitive capacities and education play an important role in the competence connected with figurative language use and comprehension in people during the second half of life. Aims: To identify…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Proverbs, Foreign Countries, Adults
Evaporative Economics: A Truth-Telling Metaphor to Displace the Trickle-Down Lie That Just Won't Die
Wright-Maley, Cory; Hall, Delandrea; Finley, Shakealia Y. – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2023
Trickle-down economics is a fallacious metaphor that hurts working people and the civic commons. In this paper, we discuss the role and impact metaphors have in economics education. We explore the stickiness of "truthy" but ultimately false metaphors and offer economics educators alternative metaphors to displace this problematic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Figurative Language, Economics Education, Language Usage
Söylemez, Nesrin Hark – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2023
This study examines the academic dishonesty tendencies, created metaphors and opinions on the "ethics" and "science and research ethics" and "opinions on the taken course" of prospective teachers who took the science and research ethics course. Embedded mixed design was preferred. Academic dishonesty tendency scale,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethics, Figurative Language, Cheating
Sara C. Lawrence – SRATE Journal, 2023
Current research supports the need for data-driven systems that occur naturally through a culture of continuous growth. Told through an ethnographic case study design and the lens of shared leadership, is the story of one educator preparation program's journey to improve curricula, clinical practice, and performance management through improvement…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Organizational Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Research and Development
Taran Cardone – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study focuses on better understanding students and their internal worlds through conceptual metaphor theory and sensory language. Using a phenomenological and arts-based approach, I examined students' metaphorical constructions of their college experiences and the sensory language and information informing those constructions. By engaging…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Educational Experience, Language Usage, Student Attitudes
Isaac Burt; Luis A. Tosado II – Professional School Counseling, 2024
Comic book characters (CBCs) provide an escapism from reality while still confronting real issues. However, for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) there is a lack of characters that look, talk, and think like them. Black Panther is an example of a character more inclusive of BIPOC populations, especially Black males. What…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Cartoons, Group Counseling