The use of metaphors in education

Rod Pitcher

By Rod Pitcher
Community contribution / September 17, 2014

This article is about the use of metaphors in education. I show that science and technology are importants users of metaphors in explaining their concepts. I genealise the use of metaphors in education by discussing their use in science and technology teaching.

Metaphors are very useful in education because they use already held knowledge as a scaffold upon which to build new ...

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