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This study aimed to determine teacher candidates's perception about "school" through metaphors. In this respect, components of school such as "Teacher, Student, Principal, Classroom, Teachers' Room, Parent, Ministry of National Education and Inspector" were categorized separately to determine metaphorical images of teacher candidates about school. The sampling of the study consisted of 346 teacher candidates studying at Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Math departments of Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education.This is a two-dimensional research study where qualitative and quantitative research methods are used together. Metaphors of teacher candidates about school were collected through a diagram prepared according to the Lotus Flower Technique. Findings of this study clearly indicated that Lotus Flower Technique enabled the expression of metaphors by teacher candidates on "school", being an effective data collection tool in revealing, understanding and explaining a concept together with its components, which, in this case, are "teachers, student, principal, classroom, teachers' room, parent, MEB and inspector".

This study analyzed the proactive and reactive personality traits in teachers and students. These traits were interpreted with the help of the ideas and images revealed through metaphors. With the help of these metaphors, the certain imaginative categories and statements of student teachers about the teacher, the student and teacher-student relationship were associated with both reactive and proactive personality models. The sampling of the study involved 330 Biology, Physics and Chemistry track students at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education. As the metaphors of student teachers were examined in terms of the teacher-student relationship, "teacher is proactive and student is reactive" was found to be the common dominant view.

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