Consuming metaphors: Stimulating questions for everyday learning

Consuming metaphors: Stimulating questions for everyday learning

This paper about consumption as a metaphor for learning follows from some ideas about learning and space that emerged from a research project concerned with everyday learning at work. These learning/work spaces have drawn our attention to the significant consumption (eating and drinking) occurring within them. We suggest that linking everyday learning to the ordinariness of consuming opens up s...

Questions and Information: Contrasting Metaphors

E-Learning: some unanswered questions

Learning and metaphors.

All thought and talk about learning involves the use of metaphors. Whilst metaphors aid our understanding of things by suggesting novel insights, they can also mislead if too much is read into the supposed likenesses. Acquisition and transfer are easily the most popular metaphors used to understand learning. This article argues that these metaphors commonly mislead when we take them to mean tha...

Learning Containment Metaphors

We present a computational approach that traces the developmental process, from containment image schemas to metaphor, in four phases: a) perceptual discovery of image schemas, b) associating perceptual arguments and the relation with linguistic units, c) discovering a linguistic structure encoding the schema, and finally d) enriching the semantics of the schema via extended language usage (via...