Pierre-Paul Delvaux exhorts that unlike poetic metaphor, which aims to make the familiar unusual, pedagogical metaphor aims to make the unusual familiar. "[...] There is in the use of pedagogical ...

When my client said, "I'm at the end of my rope," he was metaphorically talking about his frustrations. In simple English, when you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else ...

Graphic facilitation is a set of techniques designed to share and bring out ideas and cohesion, using a mix of visuals, keywords and expressions. Images play an important role. And these images are ...

Recent philosophical analyses of the epistemic dimension of images in the sciences show a certain trend in acknowledging potential roles of these images beyond their merely decorative or pedagogical ...

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 45, No. 1, Understanding Visual Metaphor: Developmental and Individual Differences (1980), pp. 1-78 (89 pages) The development of an ...

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a new leaf gallery| sculpturesite is pleased to announce the exhibition ANIMAL DREAMS: Animals as Visual Metaphors, on display from March 5 through June 12, 2011. An opening reception will take place ...

Imagine trying to explain a complex idea to your team, only to be met with blank stares and confusion. We’ve all been there, struggling to bridge the gap between our thoughts and others’ understanding ...