Cultural Metaphors: Some Implications for Science Education

Abstract

This ethnographic study explores the question of whether cultural metaphors concerning heat still are subscribed to by a heterogeneous group of Sotho people in Southern Africa no longer strictly traditional in their way of life. The authors seek to investigate the implications of this particular metaphor for the learning of orthodox scientific theories of heat. ANTHROPOLOGY OF LEARNING; CROSS‐CULTURAL COMMUNICATION; METAPHOR; SCIENCE EDUCATION.