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Running head: INVESTIGATING AND REFORMING PRACTICE |
 | | Changing teachers' and students' classroom practices requires that methods are available that enable teachers' and students' to make their tacit beliefs explicit and available for scrutiny. |
 | | Teachers' guiding metaphors like "captain of the ship,' 'policeman,' karate master,' 'preacher,' and 'manager,' were shifted, in consultation with teachers, to metaphors like 'researcher,' 'mentor' and 'social director.' Changes in pedagogy followed the changes in metaphor with the teachers shifting their pedagogical stance to a position more representative of constructivism. |
 | | Importantly, the practice of asking the students to construct a metaphor to describe themselves as learners served as a metacognitive experience for students which enabled them to make their personal images and beliefs explicit and available for scrutiny. |
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