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Metaphoric enrichment

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 8:55pm.

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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