Abstract
The aim of this paper is to propose a research tool in the field of education - the metaphorical collage. This tool facilitates the understanding of concepts and processes in education through the analysis of metaphors in works that include pictorial images and verbal images. We believe the metaphorical collage to be an important research tool that enables both researcher and research participant to understand children's worldview in regards to concepts in the field of education. The permits the use of expressive language in order to describe the question under investigation. The researcher has the ability to interpret the meaning of the events in which people are involved, and he is also capable of evaluating their educational significance. It is the researcher who is equipped with the requisite ability, sensitivity, and experience for conducting research by means of the metaphorical collage. With the help of the collage, the educational situation is grasped, and its meaning is interpreted.
Highlights
The aim of this paper is to propose a research tool in the field of education - the "metaphorical collage"
This tool facilitates the understanding of concepts and processes in education through the analysis of metaphors in collage works that include pictorial images and verbal images
It is possible to relate to five central components in regards to the research participant's understanding of the concept "heterogeneous class", employing the "metaphorical collage" tool: (1) the teacher perceives the class as a group; (2) the teacher relates to the child with special needs in the setting of the heterogeneous class; (3) the teacher views her role as rendering personal and individual assistance to the child with special needs; (4) the teacher stresses the particular emotional aspects that the child with special needs requires; (5) the teacher expresses her emotions regarding the heterogeneous class
Summary
The aim of this paper is to propose a research tool in the field of education - the "metaphorical collage". Starting from the 1980s, Lakoff and Johnson [19, 20; 17] developed a different direction for understanding the metaphor as conceptual and cognitive Following their lead, other researchers [5; 6; 8; 11, 12; 21; 25] related to the metaphor as a cardinal and basic mechanism in thinking. The "metaphoric collage" was used as a research tool in the study "young children’s perception of the concept of noise as conveyed in visual representations" .The research was published in an online Journal in Hebrew. The children related to three aspects in their perception of the concept: (1) external sources of noise (vehicles, machines); (2) causes of noise – they stressed human activity as a cause of noise (playing an instrument, stamping, banging, walking); (3) properties of noise – they indicated volume (high, low), and movement as properties of noise [27]
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