Metaphor’s importance as an aid to thought and expression in a culture can hardly be overemphasized; in fact, it is inconceivable that humans could make sense of their world, especially the world of ideas, without these tools for creating meaning by connecting the known to the unknown, the physical to the ineffable, the everyday to the sublime (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Lakoff & Turner, 1989; Ortony, 1979). Analyzed critically, the metaphors a society uses reveal its underlying assumptions and values. In her recent book, Education is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching, Alison Cook-Sather explains how our dominant metaphors for education have limited the ways we think about learning and teaching; however, her main endeavor is to promote an alternative metaphor, that of education as translation. Through her exploration of the possibilities of juxtaposing education with the complex and slippery activity of translation, she provides a variety... (preview truncated at 150 words.)
Metaphor’s importance as an aid to thought and expression in a culture can hardly be overemphasized; in fact, it is inconceivable that humans could make sense of their world, especially the world of ideas, without these tools for creating meaning by connecting the known to the unknown, the physical to the ineffable, the everyday to the sublime (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Lakoff & Turner, 1989; Ortony, 1979). Analyzed critically, the metaphors a society uses reveal its underlying assumptions and values. In her recent book, Education is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching, Alison Cook-Sather explains how our dominant metaphors for education have limited the ways we think about learning and teaching; however, her main endeavor is to promote an alternative metaphor, that of education as translation. Through her exploration of the possibilities of juxtaposing education with the complex and slippery activity of translation, she provides a variety... (preview truncated at 150 words.)
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