Theme: Look Both Ways: Narrative and Metaphor in Education.

Educationists have been strongly influenced by the claims made around thirty years ago that human beings rely on narrative (or storytelling) for making sense of the world. Narrative approaches have been taken up in almost every area of theory and practice in education, with “narrative inquiry” achieving particular prominence. A metaphor perspective has been employed almost as frequently, but in a rather more fragmentary way. As in other disciplines, the narrative perspective and the metaphor perspective have mostly been employed separately. The conference was designed to encourage work which would integrate the two perspectives.

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