Reflections on Metaphors for Learning Design
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Dobozy, Eva
Dalziel, J.
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Dalziel, J. and Dobozy, E. 2016. Reflections on Metaphors for Learning Design, in Dalziel, J. (ed), Learning Design: Conceptualizing a Framework for Teaching and Learning Online, pp. 63-77. New York: Routledge.
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Learning Design: Conceptualizing a Framework for Teaching and Learning Online
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School of Education
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Metaphors are commonly used to help explain complex phenomena. Hence, they have been accepted as a simple yet effective cognitive tool which enables the transfer of meaning between dissimilar domains. The literal interpretation of the term metaphor is transfer. Tracing the etymology of the term, Stern provides the following definition: Middle English metaphor, from Old French metaphore, from Latin meatphora, from Greek, transference, metaphor, from metapherein, to transfer: meta-, meta- + pherein, to carry. [The American Heritage Dictionary (2000, p. 1134), cited in Stern (2009, p. 81)].
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