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Understanding Curved Spacetime: The Role of the Rubber Sheet Analogy in Learning General Relativity
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Kersting, Magdalena; Steier, Rolf – Science & Education, 2018
According to general relativity (GR), we live in a four-dimensional curved universe. Since the human mind cannot visualize those four dimensions, a popular analogy compares the universe to a two-dimensional rubber sheet distorted by massive objects. This analogy is often used when teaching GR to upper secondary and undergraduate physics students.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts, Online Courses
Being Safe from What and Safe for Whom? A Critical Discussion of the Conceptual Metaphor of 'Safe Space'
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Flensner, Karin K.; Von der Lippe, Marie – Intercultural Education, 2019
Safe space, used in educational settings as a metaphor, stresses the importance of the classroom being a learning environment characterised by respect and safety. Based on examples from Swedish and Norwegian classroom research, this article problematises and discusses the complexity in the discourse on safe space by asking the critical questions:…
Descriptors: School Safety, Figurative Language, Classroom Environment, Prosocial Behavior
Selective Critical Thinking: A Textbook Analysis of Education for Critical Thinking in Norwegian Social Studies
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Børhaug, Kjetil – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
Current Norwegian curricular guidelines oblige schools to educate citizens with a critical perspective on society. From a discourse theoretical perspective, this obligation implies that various school subjects, and in particular social studies, offer discourses on social issues that allow for different points of view and critical evaluation.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Social Studies
Figurative Language and Multicultural Education: Metaphors of Language Acquisition and Retention
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Erdmann, Susan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Linguistics has long recognised that figurative language in the form of metaphorical expressions structures and communicates attitudes towards the ideas and concepts being expressed and that multilingual students also employ linguistic figures frequently in their writing. In this study, multilingual students use figurative language to both…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Correlation
From Sputnik to PISA Shock -- New Technology and Educational Reform in Norway and Sweden
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Haugsbakk, Geir – Education Inquiry, 2013
The article offers a comparative perspective on how educational policy is influenced by two key phenomena that sent something akin to shockwaves through the Western world, and that in both cases highlighted basic deficiencies within the school system. The case of Norway and Sweden in particular, as well as the role of new technology, is examined.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement, Educational Change, Technology Uses in Education
The Relevance of Rhetoric to the Study of Power in Communication and Communicative Adequacy
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Elstad, Eyvind – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
The central focus in this article is that how language is used can constitute the basis for power relations. In the first place, power functions through linguistic expressions in relationships of superiority and subordination (commands, reprimands etc.). Secondly, language acts can appear as representations of discourse, i.e. linguistic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric