When pedagogy is viewed as a science of teaching and process-based learning of curriculum, it discards all kind of metaphors, analogies and similes that were erstwhile used to describe students-teacher relationships such as teacher as gardener, planter, potter, sculptor, doctor, lighthouse, etc.
Pedagogy views both teachers and students as thinking individuals and co-discovers of knowledge and work together to create conditions for learning to happen that educates both of them. Every learner is unique while similes and metaphors tend to over-generalize learners as one category akin to some objects and lead to blaming them for not performing.
Pedagogy is a science that imparts experiences and communicates content as matter of facts to be subjected to analysis and verification rather than use any figurative speech and make learners to accept it.
Here are a few pedagogy haiku
Pedagogical science -
Accepts it not similes –
Knowledge’s co-constructed !
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Students and teachers Both're thinking individuals -
Not plants-n-gardeners
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Similes-n-metaphors -
They are apt for language arts
They're mere kicks of mind
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