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Defining Themes of EDUCATION

conservation/maintenance (of knowledge)

preparation (for adult life)

enabling (the individual)

empowering (democratic citizens)

anticipating (the future)

Key Metaphors of TEACHING

delivering/transmitting

training/conditioning

guiding/facilitating

occasioning/orienting

modeling/engaging/involving

designing

mentoring/empowering

co-evolving

Key Metaphors of LEARNERS

passive recipient

manipulable entity

active agent

interactive participant

nested system

Key Metaphors of LEARNING

getting

encoding

connecting

construing

adapting

participating

expanding the possible

living

Discourses on Influencing Learning

Discourses on Interpreting Learning

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Major
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Paradigms

UNSCIENTIFIC (inattentive to assumptions; tendency toward uncritical, entailment-heavy assertions about learning)

QUASI-SCIENTIFIC or LIMITED-SCIENTIFIC(lacking some critical element associated with robust, scientific knowledge)

SCIENTIFIC(robustly theorized and empirically grounded, aimed at innovative contributions to understanding learning)

**signifies HIJACKED or ADAPTED (not originally formulated or intended as discourses on or associated with learning)