In this study, it was aimed to identify the perceptions of preservice preschool teachers about music lesson through metaphors. The study group of the research includes 137 teacher candidates studying in Trakya University, Faculty of Education, and the Department of Preschool Education in 2015-2016 spring semester and taking the course of Music Education II. With the aim of identifying metaphoric perceptions related to music course, teacher candidates were asked for completing the sentence, "Music course is like …; because…". The data were analyzed with content analysis among qualitatively research methods and 58 metaphors were obtained. These metaphors were gathered under 18 different conceptual categories depending on their common features and the reasons of explaining metaphors by the teacher candidates. As a result of the study, it has been identified that teacher candidates explained the concept of music course with the metaphors different from each other and they use the metaphor of "love" and "rainbow" mostly of these metaphors.
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