Metaphors We Teach By: How Metaphors Shape What We Do in Classrooms

Metaphors We Teach By: How Metaphors Shape What We Do in Classrooms
ISBN-10
1620320142
ISBN-13
9781620320143
Category
Religion
Pages
168
Language
English
Published
2012-06-01
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Authors
Ken Badley, Harro Walter Van Brummelen

Description

Metaphors We Teach By helps teachers reflect on how the metaphors they use to think about education shape what happens in their classrooms and in their schools. Teaching and learning will differ in classrooms whose teachers think of students as plants to be nurtured from those who consider them as clay to be molded. Students will be assessed differently if teachers think of assessment as a blessing and as justice instead of as measurement. This volume examines dozens of such metaphors related to teaching and teachers, learning and learners, curriculum, assessment, gender, and matters of spirituality and faith. The book challenges teachers to embrace metaphors that fit their worldview and will improve teaching and learning in their classrooms.

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