Abstract

LUIZ TEIXEIRA DE ALMEIDA, Ricardo. Formal education and metaphors for knowledge: searching for changes in pedagogical concepts and practices. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2005, vol.6, n.1, pp. 12-25. ISSN 1806-5821.

This article assumes that our social and institutional practices are informed by our beliefs and that these, on their turn, owe a good deal of their composition to the metaphors which help us understand a lot of different concepts. So, we may suppose that the metaphor used by teachers to conceptualize the nature of knowledge will be very important in the creation and appreciation of different educational practices. From this hypothesis, we recognize the existence of three metaphors for competing knowledge for hegemony in the thoughts of teachers and other educational professionals nowadays. They are (1) knowledge is transmitted, (2) knowledge is built and (3) knowledge is interlaced in web(s). So, the goal of this paper is to discuss which implications would come from the adoption of each one of these metaphors in classroom practices, as well as trying to describe the historical changes in the beliefs and values of teachers and educators. © Ciências & Cognição 2005; Vol. 06: 12-25.

Keywords : knowledge; metaphor; education.

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