Metaphorical Perceptions of Teacher Candidates towards the School Concept: Lotus Flower Model

Koçak, Canan

doi:10.13054/mije.13.61.3.4

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“…The teacher candidates who used metaphors for teacher such as plaster master and carpenter, similarly regarded student as a passive learner with metaphors such as dough, clay, and plaster. Similarly, previous studies (Aydın & Pehlivan, 2010;Koç ak, 2013;Mahlios & Maxson, 1998;Saban, 2009;Saban, 2010) showed that a passive student perception emerged. In addition, a significant number of teacher candidates thought that students are made to overwork (a racehorse), they are uniformized (robot), they are not given the value they deserve (orphan child), and that they are educated unsystematically (subject).…”

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“…Some metaphors forming the basis of these perceptions were "jigsaw", "play dough", "test board", "tarhana soup (a traditional Turkish soup)", "Noah's pudding (a traditional Turkish food)", and "labyrinth". The findings of Koç ak (2013) revealed that teacher candidates' perceptions of MoNE (Ministry of National Education) were mostly shaped by metaphors related to politics. These findings involved criticisms of the frequent changes and the complex structure.…”

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Perceptions of Primary School Teacher Candidates towards the Turkish Education System, School, Teacher, and Student: A Metaphor Analysis

İşeri

Akin

2019

IJHE

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This study aimed to determine the perceptions of primary school teacher candidates about the Turkish education system, school, teacher, and student concepts by means of metaphors. The study group consisted of 82 primary school teacher candidates enrolled in the senior class of a university in the Black Sea Region in Turkey in 2018. The study data were collected using a questionnaire which involved gap filling questions aiming to determine the metaphors for the Turkish education system, school, teacher, and student. Findings indicated that the majority of the primary school teacher candidates had a negative perception of the Turkish education system. More than half of the negative metaphors that the participants used were about the unceasing change of the system. Primary school teacher candidates' perceptions of the school concept were mostly positive. The participants saw school as a home that educates and shapes people. Nevertheless, a considerable number of the participants considered school like an oppressive and uniformizing prison, where they would not like to be. Majority of the primary school teacher candidates had positive perceptions of the teacher concept. Nonetheless, there were neutral and negative perceptions as well. The participants mostly emphasized the educating and shaping characteristics of the teacher concept in their descriptions. Although primary school teacher candidates’ perceptions of student were generally positive, a student description, in which student was seen passive in the learning process and highlighted as an entity that can be shaped, stood out.

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Perceptions of Primary School Teacher Candidates towards the Turkish Education System, School, Teacher, and Student: A Metaphor Analysis

İşeri

Akin

2019

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“…According to Koçak (2013) metaphors are essential tools for catching the main nature of an experience in an active process, which enables individuals to understand their own worlds along with others. First sub-category is foreign language teachers as caring image represents that teacher candidates perceive foreign language teachers have a caring role in language classrooms.…”

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“…Similar results have been obtained in other studies. A study was carried out by Koçak (2013) (1) the manufacturing metaphor; (2) the military metaphor; (3) the gardening metaphor; and (4) the sports metaphor. Another study was carried out in Malasia by Nikitina and Furuoka in 2008.…”

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English Language Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Language Teachers: A Metaphor Study

Köroğlu¹

2016

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Metaphor studies are accepted as research tools by general education and language pedagogy scholars in related fields. It is considered that metaphors are useful tools to investigate and construct teacher's professional life. Metaphor studies generally focus on teacher-produced or student-produced metaphor images and qualitative data are used to analyze these images. The current research utilized pre-service English language teacher's metaphor perceptions about English language teachers. Therefore, the participants of the study will be prospective teachers in the future, their perceptions about English language teachers are quite important to investigate their identity building process. The participants of the present research are 128 English language teacher candidates who are first graders of English language teaching department at Gazi University. The data were collected in 2014-2015 academic year. The data were collected through a scale which had been developed by researchers of the study. The scale consists of two part that investigate participants' perceptions through metaphors. The data were analyzed through content analysis. The results show that English language teacher candidates' perceptions vary and mostly positive metaphors were used to describe English language teachers. The current research is significant in terms of understanding English language teacher candidates' perceptions about their future career.

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“…The use of metaphor as an investigative tool in the field of education has been highly appreciated. Metaphors can be used as effective tools to determine the role of teachers in modern education (Patton, 2002b;Perry, 1995;Perry & Cooper, 2001;James, 2002;Vadeboncoeur & Torres, 2003), as well as their roles in guiding education and teaching practices (Botha, 2009;Carlson, 2001;Cerit, 2008;Cochran, 2002;Cook-Sather, 2003;Koçak, 2013;Massengill, Mahlios, & Barry, 2005;Zheng & Song, 2010). Moreover, international literature increasingly supports the study and use of teacher's metaphorical images to understand how they conceptualize their teaching and themselves in their field of work (Inbar, 1996;Leavya, McSorley, & Bote, 2007;Martinez, Sauleda, & Huber, 2001;Saban, Koçbeker, & Saban, 2006, 2007Thomas & Beauchamp, 2011).…”

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“Teacher” from the Children’s Perspective: A Study by Metaphors

Cansever

Aslan²

2016

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The purpose of this study is to determine the perception of teachers by 10 year-old primary school childrens by the metaphors they developed. The sample covers totally 441 children [224 females (50.8%) and 217 males (49.2%)] living in Izmir, Turkey. Participants were asked to complete the prompt "Teacher is like…, because…''. In identifying their perceptions, the qualitative research model (Holloway & Wheeler, 2002) was utilized, which contributes to the investigation of the individual's perceptions, feelings, and experiences within the framework of Phenomenological design. At the end of the research female students produced 52 metaphors, and males did 44 for teacher images. However, 7 metaphors were commonly created by both genders. They were categorized in 8 conceptual themes. The children's perceptions of "teacher" were clustered especially in the conceptual theme of Family Member (25%) and Warm-hearted Person (8%), with emotional and relational feelings which can be explained by the children's attachment relations (Sabol & Pianta, 2012), that are similar for their families and their teachers. Gender was found to be significantly related with the images of teachers.

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Metaphorical Perceptions of Teacher Candidates towards the School Concept: Lotus Flower Model

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Perceptions of Primary School Teacher Candidates towards the Turkish Education System, School, Teacher, and Student: A Metaphor Analysis

Perceptions of Primary School Teacher Candidates towards the Turkish Education System, School, Teacher, and Student: A Metaphor Analysis

English Language Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Language Teachers: A Metaphor Study

“Teacher” from the Children’s Perspective: A Study by Metaphors

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