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.
Author(s): Ken Badley & Harro Van Brummelen
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 143
Title Page......Page 3
Chapter 1: Metaphors: Unavoidable, Influential, and Enriching......Page 7
Chapter 2: Metaphors for Learners......Page 20
Chapter 3: Metaphors for Teachers......Page 34
Chapter 4: Metaphors for Teaching and Learning......Page 52
Chapter 5: Curriculum as a Journey Toward Wisdom......Page 66
Chapter 6: Student Assessment: Hitting the Mark or Lighting the Candle?......Page 84
Chapter 7: Princesses and Superheroes: Metaphors that Work Against Wholeness......Page 101
Chapter 8: Metaphors for Spirituality in Public Educational Settings......Page 110
Chapter 9: Metaphors and Models of Faith-Learning Integration......Page 127
