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The Mbira Metaphor: Inspiring Creative Thinking through Folktale

Author(s) -

Constantine Ngara

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

exceptionality education international

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.226

H-Index - 8

ISSN - 1918-5227

DOI - 10.5206/eei.v19i3.7651

Subject(s) - metaphor , creativity , shona , psychology , creative thinking , literal and figurative language , interpretation (philosophy) , pedagogy , mathematics education , epistemology , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy

The paper presents the author’s views on inspiring creative thinking among stu-dents through a folktale. The mbira metaphor is this author’s interpretation of a unique African (Shona) folktale that has the potential to enrich the pedagogy of giftedness. The mbira metaphor is an informative and thought-provoking folktale originating from previous studies on Shona culture’s views of giftedness. The rec-ognition of the mbira folktale as a metaphor that has the potential to enrich gifted programming follows new thinking in research that values the contribution of so-ciocultural perspectives to our understanding of giftedness and creativity. The author recommends that the mbira metaphor be used in gifted programming to in-spire creative thinking among students.

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