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Capital as metaphor
The economy of ideas #4 We talk about social capital, cultural capital, creative capital, even ‘emotional capital’. It seems that capital can stand in for almost every human capacity. Why is this? Given its role as a real currency, it’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged agglomeration, capital, competition, economy, Education, ideas, learning, lump and label, marketisation, metaphor, reification, skills
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Primo Levi on work and education
In his wonderful La chiave a stella (The Wrench) published in 1978, Primo Levi shares with us an exchange of stories told by Faussone, the itinerant Piedmontese rigger, and a narrator who, like Levi himself, is an industrial chemist at the point … Continue reading →
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Tagged Education, employment, La Chiave a Stella, labour, learning, metaphor, Primo Levi, The Wrench, work
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Education without metaphors?
We love metaphors don’t we? They can help us to express new or complex ideas in term of more familiar ones. They can add richness and drama to our explanations. Good metaphors can help us to understand, organise and interpret … Continue reading →
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Tagged Education, learning, metaphor
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Homology, analogy and metaphor. Science in Society 5.
Reading ‘Much scientific argument and hypothesis-making proceeds through the use of analogy and metaphor’. Steven Rose. To help us understand a scientific process we often liken it to something we’re already familiar with. We use homology, analogy and metaphor. A … Continue reading →
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