METAPHOR IN PEDAGOGY

Abstract

The article considers a metaphor that has found its embodiment in pedagogical practice. It becomes one of the important components of the pedagogical process in the modern educational organization educational space. The article analyzes linguistic and artistic metaphors, as well as metaphors of acquisition, metaphors of participation and metaphors of knowledge creation. Researchers say that different metaphors lead to different ways of thinking. On the one hand, metaphor is the basic mechanism of conceptualization, thanks to which abstract thinking is formed. On the other hand, metaphors constrain a person’s imagination within the boundaries of past experience and ideas. Therefore, the metaphor has a huge educational potential, because it participates in the process of implementing feedback between the student and the teacher, contributing to a better understanding of the processes and the essence of the phenomena occurring in the language and culture.