Metaphor, Model, and Museum: Reflections on the Art of Educational Policy Making
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https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v29i3.52401Abstract
In this paper, the author uses three concepts from the arts to prompt reflection on the artistic nature of educational policy making. The metaphor of humanity's quest for knowledge as depicted by Alexander Pope is combined with elements of a physical model and components of the Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec to highlight some characteristic truths about the policy process itself. The arts illuminate the nature of educational policy making as a unique creation, combining in harmonious tension elements of culture, technology, materials, form, function, and spirit. A formula or assembly line approach to either art or policy will result in nothing more than cheap imitation.
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