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metaphor

Metaphors, damned metaphors, and extended metaphors

March 12, 2014March 8, 2015 Wayne Barry

It was my intention this week to make a start on my assignment. I have now placed this on the back-burner until next week for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I came, quite serendipitously, to a journal article by Hughes & Tight (2013), which I’ll be discussing in this post. Secondly, I have been reading […]

 EdD

Week 2: Metaphors, memes and mimicry? #edcmooc

February 9, 2013March 5, 2015 Wayne Barry

Information that we copy from person to person, by imitation, by language, by talking, by telling stories, by wearing clothes, by doing things — this is information copied with variation and selection. This is [a] design process. (Blackmore, 2008) This post has taken a little longer to get published as I have been down with […]

 EDC-MOOC

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