Purpose: The main purpose of this research is to uncover the perceptions of the teacher candidates who are pedagogical formation students about future, employment, KPSS, politics and educational policy by means of metaphors. In accordance with this target these questions are tried to be answered: What metaphors do the teacher training students have about ‘future’, ‘KPSS’, ‘employment’, ‘occupation’, ‘politics’ and ‘Turkish Educational Policy’ ? Method: In this research to identify the metaphorical thinking states of the teacher candidates who are pedagogical formation students about those six concepts; phenomenology, one of the qualitative research designs, has been used. The sample of the study consists of the 50 students who take pedagogical formation at Abant İzzet Baysal University in the Spring Semester of the 2013-2014 Educational Year. 38 female students and 12 male students form the study group. The application of the research has been done by the lecturer and the researcher with the permission of the lecturer. In the beginning students are informed about the metaphor technique and then they are asked to complete the sentences. The students are asked to express their opinions by using the words given before and focusing on only one metaphor each time. The students are given one course time to form metaphors about the sentences given them. The metaphors created by the students form the basic data source of this study. The application phase of the study has been done on the 50 pedagogical formation students but 45 of them could set meaningful metaphors or explain the reasons of the metaphors sensibly and these 45 studies are evaluated. The research is analyzed in three phases. First of all a temporal list of metaphors produced by the participants was prepared and then the answers were checked to see whether they were meaningful or not.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Studies on Education |
Journal Section | Educational Sciences and Sciences of Field Education |
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Publication Date | March 24, 2015 |
Published in Issue | Year 2014Volume: 5 Issue: 4 |
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