The “metaphor” is the practice of agile processes most ignored by practitioners. A metaphor is meant to be agreed upon by all members of a project as a means of simply explaining the purpose of the project and thus guide the structure of the architecture, thus it is very important for communication, both among the team and with the client. Since both customers and developers alike use the metap...

This study investigated metaphor comprehension in the broader context of task-difference effects and manipulation of processing difficulty. We predicted that right hemisphere recruitment would show greater specificity to processing difficulty rather than metaphor comprehension. Previous metaphor processing studies have established that the left inferior frontal gyrus strongly correlates with me...

Happé (1993) proposed that theory of mind (ToM) understanding was necessary for comprehension of metaphorical expressions. The current study investigated the role of both ToM and language ability in metaphor understanding. Ninety-four children aged 8–15 years with communication impairments were grouped according to language ability and autistic symptomatology in the first instance, and then acc...

The grand vision of educational software is that of a networked system enabling the learner to explore, discover, and construct subject matters and communicate problems and ideas with other community members. Educational material is transformed into reusable learning objects, created collaboratively by developers, educators, and designers, preserved in a digital library, and utilized, adapted, ...

This paper seeks to contribute the understanding of ‘panopticon’ in educational research, problematising its validity and offering a fresh conceptualisation teacher surveillance. The school as is well-established concept which helpfully enables consideration aspects high-stakes accountability. present explores question how contemporary teachers perceive themselves be subject scrutiny consequenc...

The present study firstly explores teacher mental images and understandings of the concepts ‘parent’ through metaphor analysis secondly examines how leaders differ in terms perceptions about ‘parents. primary objective this is to uncover leaders' implicit attitudes ‘parents’ order contribute parental involvement initiatives undertaken by teacher. adopts a mixed-design methodology. Teacher were ...