Metaphor and Analogy in Science Education [electronic resource] / edited by Peter J. Aubusson, Allan G. Harrison, Stephen M. Ritchie.

Metaphor and Analogy -- Teaching and Learning with Analogies -- Complementary Epistemologies of Science Teaching -- Post-Festum and Heuristic Analogies -- The Affective Dimension of Analogy -- The Role of Models, Mental Models and Analogies in Chemistry Teaching -- Metaphors for Genes -- Role Play as Analogical Modelling in Science -- Metaphor, Students' Conceptions of Learning and Teaching, and Metacognition -- The Role of Analog Models in the Understanging of the Nature of Models in Chemistry -- The Role of Metaphor in a New Science Teacher's Learning from Experience -- Metaphors and Analogies in Transition -- Why Do Science Teachers Teach the Way They Do and How Can They Improve Practice? -- Can Analogy Help in Science Education Research? -- Metaphors We Write by -- Metaphorically Thinking.

This book brings together powerful ideas and new developments from internationally recognised scholars and classroom practitioners to provide theoretical and practical knowledge to inform progress in science education. This is achieved through a series of related chapters reporting research on analogy and metaphor in science education. Throughout the book, contributors not only highlight successful applications of analogies and metaphors, but also foreshadow exciting developments for research and practice. Themes include metaphor and analogy: best practice, as reasoning; for learning; applications in teacher development; in science education research; philosophical and theoretical foundations. Accordingly, the book is likely to appeal to a wide audience of science educators -classroom practitioners, student teachers, teacher educators and researchers.