Contemporary or analytical Marxism is an investigation into multiple class variables such as economic capital, educational capital, social capital, and cultural capital. Analytical Marxism is an approach used to study class exploitation and domination. Media are mass-produced messages that shape dominant cultural representations. A metaphor poetically conveys an abstract concept by comparing it to something familiar. Teachers use metaphor to explain difficult concepts.
Researchers use metaphor to look at something unfamiliar in new ways.
Verbal and visual metaphors stimulate creative and critical thinking. Methodology is the theoretical frame that shapes how we go about doing something. Methodology, as theoretically informed teaching practice, is pedagogy. There are many meanings to the concept multiculturalism. Some take an educational stance toward multiculturalism as the need to assimilate all students into the dominant culture, others see the need for bicultural depth, others promote equality of all cultures, and others promote re-examining cultural perspectives.