Butterflies in Our Classrooms: Using Metaphors in Teacher Education From: The Teacher Educator | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Greves, Shirley Vaughn | Copyright Ball State University Teachers College Autumn 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Abstract

The Butterfly Project utilizes a metaphor as a valuable tool in a secondary introductory teacher education course to facilitate raising preservice teachers' awareness of student diversity and the teachers' need for sensitivity to it, while demonstrating and fostering a constructivist approach to teaching. Traditionally, use of metaphors in teacher education has focused on challenging assumptions and beliefs about the profession through examining preservice teachers' metaphors ...

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