... 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...

... 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...

.... Sense-making Dialogue Rhetoric Macroeconomics Metaphor theory Polysemy I have just delivered my initial lecture in this semester’s Macroeconomics course. The first-year undergraduates, at an institution other than that in indicated in my academic affiliation, came to the lecture...

...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...