Pre-service Teachers’ Metaphorical Perceptions towards the Concept of Scientist

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ID12320016
AuthorsOrhan Akınoğlu (Marmara University, corresponding author), Orhan Akinoğlu (Marmara University, Ataturk Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences , 34722 Istanbul, Turkey), Ramazan Şamil TATIK (0000-0002-6727-8264, Marmara University, Ataturk Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences , 34722 Istanbul, Turkey), Yasemin Baykin (Marmara University, Ataturk Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences , 34722 Istanbul, Turkey)
Year2015
Volume19
Issue3
Pages577-584
Publication date2015-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0972-0073 • E-ISSN: 2456-6802
PublisherKamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/09720073.2015.11891692
OpenAlexW2188312824
LanguageEN
References cited17

The purpose of this study is to display pre-service teachers’ perceptions towards the concept of scientist through metaphors. Phenomenology, which is one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the study. Data was collected from 154 pre-service teachers studying in different departments of Ataturk Faculty of Education at Marmara University in Turkey, in the spring semester of 2013-2014 academic year. They were asked to complete the sentence “Scientist is like ..; because...” The collected data was analyzed through content analysis technique and interpreted accordingly. The findings indicated that 87 different metaphors were generated by the pre-service teachers for the concept of scientist. These metaphors were then categorized by considering their common features and 16 categories and 8 themes were obtained. It was concluded that pre-service teachers had positive perceptions towards scientist while two negative metaphors were found among the metaphors that pre-service teachers generated for the concept of scientist

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