This is an interesting choice of metaphor. It hearkens back to a violent conflict--conquering and sacking a city--but is here used (I'm imagining) completely separate from that origin. I wonder, however, whether it can be fully separate from a meaning tied to a lack of knowledge (and consent) on the part of the person receiving it. Trojan Horses, for me, stand apart from self-determined action, so I doubt I'd choose this metaphor.

That said, I think the idea of subtle and implicit invitations to step into new and better relationships with the world absolutely matches with the larger project here.

MWLB--personification of an ideology as something that asserts dominance, rather than something that reflects dominance? The whole idea of domination is itself antithetical to mutual agency.

MWLB again, as I mentioned above.

MWLB - "hawking" as education-is-a-consumer-good metaphor.

MWLB--probably a whole bunch of overlapping ones. "Learning is an object," in the show-and-tell sense of 'snow" or "Learning is a performance" in the show-me-your-dance-move sense, for starters.

Per yoozh, what's obscured?

"Levels" at very least indicates an ordinal process (or a theoretically ordinal process).

Verisimilitude? Photography metaphor here doesn't seem to fit.

A Person Is A Container. I'd favor more of a process conception.

Metaphors We Live By: Basic orientational metaphor--minds are containers.

Down Is Bad metaphor

Alternatively: Every process every person uses is completely unique every time.

The difference between these positions is perceptual, not a feature of the system (except insofar as perceptions are emergent properties of those systems).

Separable sub-processes.

Metaphors We Live By