Reflection and Metaphor in Conversation

Talking with one another is a prime medium through which most designing, planning, and learning takes place. Through our interacting and interrelating, we make visible, affirm, develop, maintain, change, and reaffirm our education systems. This short essay focuses specifically on two mental activities that can be used as effective methods with human communication to converse within an education community in order to facilitate changes in the system. I shall first define these methods, then provide a vivid example. Finally, I will describe two contexts in which they are being used for systemic change in education.

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