The metaphor as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in hard sciences and engineering and its recovery in university teaching

We present here a synthesis of our research on the epistemic validity of the use of metaphor in higher education as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in “hard sciences” and engineering. It was forged in a master's thesis in university teaching in which we trace the presenc...

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Autor principal: Magnasco, Humberto Manuel; Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional San Nicolás.
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Publicado: Facultad de Humanidades, Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/riie/article/view/5569
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topic science teaching- epistemology- metaphor- cognitive process
enseñanza de la ciencia
epistemología
metáfora
proceso cognitivo
spellingShingle science teaching- epistemology- metaphor- cognitive process
enseñanza de la ciencia
epistemología
metáfora
proceso cognitivo
Magnasco, Humberto Manuel; Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional San Nicolás.
The metaphor as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in hard sciences and engineering and its recovery in university teaching
topic_facet science teaching- epistemology- metaphor- cognitive process
enseñanza de la ciencia
epistemología
metáfora
proceso cognitivo
author Magnasco, Humberto Manuel; Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional San Nicolás.
author_facet Magnasco, Humberto Manuel; Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional San Nicolás.
author_sort Magnasco, Humberto Manuel; Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional San Nicolás.
title The metaphor as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in hard sciences and engineering and its recovery in university teaching
title_short The metaphor as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in hard sciences and engineering and its recovery in university teaching
title_full The metaphor as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in hard sciences and engineering and its recovery in university teaching
title_fullStr The metaphor as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in hard sciences and engineering and its recovery in university teaching
title_full_unstemmed The metaphor as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in hard sciences and engineering and its recovery in university teaching
title_sort metaphor as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in hard sciences and engineering and its recovery in university teaching
description We present here a synthesis of our research on the epistemic validity of the use of metaphor in higher education as a mechanism of intelligence, creation and communication in “hard sciences” and engineering. It was forged in a master's thesis in university teaching in which we trace the presence of the metaphorical mechanism in the inaugural and basal productions of modern science (Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Fourier, Ohm). The method used was qualitative and exploratory, descriptive and genetic in scope, inferring from empirical indicators the potential of intelligence, creation and communication of the mechanism. The design was dialectical, proposing data matrices that gave coherence and epistemic entity to them. We detect in the advance of scientific knowledge in this fundamental stage the sine qua non use of creative metaphors, which, by stepping into the “foreign fields” of daily life and from foreign disciplines, allowed creatively understand intriguing and challenging phenomena. We found that the latter, producing a kind of "hermeneutical vacuum" in the spirit, challenged the researcher and drove an initially metaphorical creative “filling” (trying to know the unknown from the known). This initial metaphor —cognitively vivid and implicating— was later made parched under a mathematical dress that turned it into a model. We conclude that if the metaphor creatively helped to understand and mathematize phenomena in the production of scientific knowledge, its recovery by teaching is timely in order to promote the construction of scientific knowledge in an interesting and meaningful way.
publisher Facultad de Humanidades, Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación
publishDate 2021
url https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/riie/article/view/5569
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