Watching to see until it becomes clear to you

Metaphorical mapping – a method for emergence

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ID12214092
AuthorsMarlene R Atleo, Marlene Atleo (0000-0002-1966-3563, University of Manitoba, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume21
Issue3
Pages221-233
Publication date2008-04-18
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09518390801998338
OpenAlexW1971253954
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

Searching for a methodology that would allow the author to ‘see’ across worldviews and articulate them both was the academic challenge of investigating learning ideology across Canadian and Aboriginal worldviews with Aboriginal Nuu‐chah‐nulth Elders. A mode of inquiry was required permitting the author to hold a Euro‐heritage and an Aboriginal heritage in a bi‐cultural balance as experienced by a participant in both. She employed a life‐history technique situating herself in the cross‐cultural context of her experience in both heritages. Using her personal terms of address in both cultures as metaphors to establish a common bi‐cultural ground against which her trajectory could remain visible, the author describes the development of her ability to follow the direction of the elders to ‘watch until it becomes clear.’ The method employs what Lakoff and Johnson have termed metaphorical mapping to take a snapshot of the activity that the author has previously described as phenomenological orienteering

Aesthetics · Common ground · Cultural heritage · Epistemology · Ideology · Politics · Snapshot (computer storage · Social science · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Education and Critical Thinking Development · History · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Law · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function

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