Revisiting Metaphors for Education: A Student's Perspective
Overview & Synopsis
This study examines metaphors about learning produced by a group of eighteen students at a big public university in Malaysia. The learner perspective is placed within a wider discourse on education in order to explore whether the images employed by the learners to describe their learning reflect the dominant conception of education as "production". The metaphors supplied by the participants were analyzed and classified into several themes. None of the metaphors generated by the students alluded to the images that link education with "production". The study contends that the student perspective on education can enrich educational discourse and highlight the previously obscured notions on education and learning.
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Document Information
| Document Title | Revisiting Metaphors for Education: A Student's Perspective |
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| Author / Organization | Nikitina, Larisa, Furuoka, Fumitaka |
| Subject & Discipline | Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students |
| Categories | Education & Pedagogy |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| License / Rights | Public Domain / Open Access Educational Resource |
| Resource Verification | Listed PDF (Verification Pending) |
| Original Host Website |
ERIC (Education Resources)
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| File Format | application/pdf (Portable Document Format) |
| Language | EN |
| Catalog ID | DOC-209393 |
| Original Source Link | Visit Source Page on eric.ed.gov » |