... to accept inefficiencies in achieving goals. The paper analyzes dominant rhetoric of educational game research, with the intent of revealing the implicit assumptions about play and choice that much recent “games for learning” and “games as learning” work may have ignored. Findings The paper reveals...

... considered at all, the metaphor in economics has been seen more as disciplinary rhetoric than as a “way of thinking”. It has been conceded by some authorities that at first glance “rhetoric” is confusing, “because most people use it to mean ornament that deceives, a kind of camouflage cast over speech...

... on the role of metaphors in economics, as well as to the rhetoric – realism controversy (e.g. D. McCloskey versus U. Mäki). Findings – The principal results of the paper are: the demonstration of the importance of metaphors in economics; and the claim that metaphors are not only used for rhetorical...

...Dr Robert Bates Graber; Leon Conrad Purpose – The traditional liberal-arts curriculum of the word-based Trivium (grammar, dialectic/logic, rhetoric) and the number-based Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music) has an intrinsic unity. Used in an integrated way, it provides a tool...