Metaphors We Teach By by Ken Badley

Metaphors We Teach By by Ken Badley

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.

Susanna M. Steeg Thornhill has been an educator for 20 years in elementary, undergraduate, and doctoral classrooms in the United States and abroad. She has cultivated expertise in literacy education, teacher education, and qualitative research methods. She especially enjoys interacting with dedicated educators who constantly seek to improve educational outcomes for learners.

Ken Badley lives in Calgary, Alberta, and teaches foundations of education at Tyndale University in Toronto, Ontario. He has taught in secondary, undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in Canada and the United States, and has worked extensively with teachers in Kenya.

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ISBN 13	9781620320143
ISBN 10	1620320142
Title	Metaphors We Teach By
Author	Ken Badley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Year published	2012-06-01
Number of pages	168
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