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Metaphoric enrichment

I want to add to the introductions/interpretations you'll be posting this week the metaphoric brainstorming we did on our opening day about ideal/actual classrooms. What are the implications of these images for how we might work together over the course of the semester? Where does the agency, energy and shape of the classroom come from? Wherein resides authority in each of these conceptions of education?

classroom students teacher college
dinner party
guests host house
potluck cooks/eaters --> house
stew veggies -->
kitchen
ice cream sundae
toppings cherry cone/bowl
democratic government senators president country
home family chaperone house
tree branches roots leaves
book pages title page
binding
boat rowers coxswain river
ocean fish, etc.
filter
water
game players coach field
bluegrass jam session
musicians starter of phone chain
porch
popcorn kernels heat microwave
frisbee team
team members
captain field
pink jeep tour
tourists tour guide
landscape
sound system
i-pods    
collage cutouts glue frame
expedition explorers leader landscape
doorway visitors knob hinge
museum exhibit
guests curator museum

 

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