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Dennis, Jeremy – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2019
In interdisciplinary education, metaphors often provide the epistemological clarity that is lacking in our definitions and theories of interdisciplinarity. The problem is that ineffective and unsubstantiated metaphors proliferate. We lack a root metaphor or shared world view of interdisciplinarity. Is it time that we move away from thinking in…
Descriptors: Psychology, Postmodernism, Figurative Language, Interdisciplinary Approach
El Nouhy, Eman – Children's Literature in Education, 2019
For decades, feminists have tried to dismantle and argue against the image of the Medusa as a figure of female monstrousness. This paper claims that the celebrated British author and poet Ted Hughes, in his novella for children, The Iron Woman, redeemed the Medusa and presented her in a new light that revealed her as a victim, a healer, and a…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Females, Novels, Environment
Meiners, Eric B. – Communication Teacher, 2019
Courses: Leadership, Organizational Communication, Small Group Communication. Objectives: After completing this activity, students will have greater awareness of a variety of metaphors of leadership and how these metaphors highlight different sets of instrumental communication knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Descriptors: Leadership, Figurative Language, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills
Banasik-Jemielniak, Natalia; Bokus, Barbara – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
We explored the topic of irony comprehension by preschoolers. Two hundred and thirty-one children (77 four-year-olds, 89 five-year-olds, and 65 six-year-olds) were tested with the Irony Comprehension Task (ICT, Banasik and Bokus, in: Poster presented at the psycholinguistics conference in Flanders, Berg en Dal, 2012). Participants were asked…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preschool Children, Comprehension, Language Usage
Sojot, Amy N. – Educational Perspectives, 2019
This paper is organized around five sections. The first section provides a brief background on post foundational inquiry and new materialism, two approaches that frame the conversation regarding sensation, thingness, and pedagogy. Following this introduction, further section titles incorporate dialogue from the Slimer scene. The next two sections…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Methods
Korsgaard, Morten Timmermann – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2019
In this paper, the notion of pearl diving as a metaphor for historical methodology is explored as a possible conceptual contribution to pedagogical thinking and practice. Pearl diving in the thinking of Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin refers to a process of bringing to life and coming to terms with a fragmented past, and requires of the thinker…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods
Sheena J. Vachhani; Emma Bell – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
In this paper we move from considering the chair as an (inanimate) object, to exploring its vitality through a more vibrant and active reading of this inescapable everyday item. We are inspired by feminist new materialism and how affect shapes our understanding of matter. Reading matter in this way surfaces our orientations toward everyday items…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Foreign Countries, Status, Professional Recognition
Serin, Huseyin; Bozdag, Faruk – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
In the present study, perceptions of Turkish school administrators and teachers towards Syrian refugee children were examined through metaphors. 71 school administrators and 242 teachers from 27 different provinces of Turkey participated in the study. As a result of the study, the metaphors produced by school administrators were grouped into four…
Descriptors: Refugees, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience
Jolsvai, Hajnal; McCauley, Stewart M.; Christiansen, Morten H. – Cognitive Science, 2020
Whereas a growing bulk of work has demonstrated that both adults and children are sensitive to frequently occurring word sequences, little is known about the potential role of meaning in the processing of such multiword chunks. Here, we take a first step toward assessing the contribution of meaningfulness in the processing of multiword sequences,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Prediction, Decision Making
Liu, Shuyuan; Hsieh, Chen-Yu C. – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
Due to the importance of metaphorical capacity for L2 learners, metaphor instruction is increasingly considered a crucial part of language education. To contribute to the still growing literature, the current study reports a project of teaching Chinese animal metaphors to learners of Mandarin as a foreign language, following the framework of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lieven, Elena; Ferry, Alissa; Theakston, Anna; Twomey, Katherine E. – First Language, 2020
During language acquisition children generalise at multiple layers of granularity. Ambridge argues that abstraction-based accounts suffer from lumping (over-general abstractions) or splitting (over-precise abstractions). Ambridge argues that the only way to overcome this conundrum is in a purely exemplar/analogy-based system in which…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Children, Generalization, Abstract Reasoning
Aydogmus, Mevlüt; Arslantas, Süleyman – Research on Education and Media, 2020
Technology should be used in teaching and learning in universities. It is seen that studies on the use of Web 2.0 tools in education faculties are limited. Teachers who will integrate information and communication technologies into education at schools must first of all have prerequisite knowledge and skills on this subject. However, the effective…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language, Concept Formation
Justice, Nicola; Morris, Samantha; Henry, Veronique; Fry, Elizabeth Brondos – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2020
Statistics students' conceptions of the work of statisticians and the discipline of statistics may play an important role in the topics to which they attend and their interest in pursuing further study. To learn about students' conceptions, we collected open-ended survey responses from 44 undergraduate students who had completed introductory…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Statistics, Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses
Fredriksson, Alexandra; Pelger, Susanne – Research in Science Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to explore how tertiary science students' use of metaphors in their popular science article writing may influence their understanding of subject matter. For this purpose, six popular articles written by students in physics or geology were analysed by means of a close textual analysis and a metaphor analysis. In addition,…
Descriptors: College Students, Figurative Language, Content Area Writing, College Science
Cunningham, Catriona; Mills, Jennie – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
Reading poetry through a metaphorical lens, we enquire into our lived experience of academic development. By reading poetry as a metaphor for practice it becomes possible to explore teaching identities within higher education, creating opportunities for learning and critical self-awareness. Comparing and contrasting our different interpretations…
Descriptors: Poetry, Figurative Language, Professional Identity, College Faculty