Table of Contents

Metaphor and Analogy.- Teaching and Learning with Analogies.- Complementary Epistemologies of Science Teaching.- Post-Festum and Heuristic Analogies.- The Affective Dimension of Analogy.- The Role of Models, Mental Models and Analogies in Chemistry Teaching.- Metaphors for Genes.- Role Play as Analogical Modelling in Science.- Metaphor, Students’ Conceptions of Learning and Teaching, and Metacognition.- The Role of Analog Models in the Understanging of the Nature of Models in Chemistry.- The Role of Metaphor in a New Science Teacher’s Learning from Experience.- Metaphors and Analogies in Transition.- Why Do Science Teachers Teach the Way They Do and How Can They Improve Practice?.- Can Analogy Help in Science Education Research?.- Metaphors We Write by.- Metaphorically Thinking.