Full Description
This book discusses the underlying metaphors of some important business principles and terms and positive teaching effects from deliberately implanting those metaphors in business lessons. It introduces original metaphors creatively used in live webcast courses which introduce difficult economic concepts to netizens. The deliberate metaphor is considered to represent a new dimension of metaphor, the communicative dimension. The book explores the communicative effect of deliberate metaphors and proves its effectiveness in teaching difficult business concepts.
This book explores different uses of deliberate metaphors designed to support the teaching of business concepts and discusses two teaching experiments done to explore their effectiveness. Results showed that a focused design using deliberate metaphors in the lectures improved test performance, while a scattered design using deliberate metaphors used in lectures significantly increased students' interest in the lectures.
Contents
Introduction.- Theoretical Foundations and Conceptual Frameworks of Deliberate Metaphor.- Deliberate Metaphor in Educational Contexts: Applications and Implications.- Designing Experiments for Economics Teaching.- Exploring the Teaching Outcomes of the First Round of Instructional Design.- Exploring the Teaching Outcomes of the Second Round of Instructional Design.- Comments from Peer Teachers Who Have Taught Economics.- Differential Impact of Deliberate Metaphors in Economics Education: Insights, Applications, and Implications.
