Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Din Kavramına İlişkin Algılarının Metaforlar Aracılığıyla Belirlenmesi

Abstract

Concepts are building blocks of curriculum. Social studies course has a curriculum reflecting subjects like history, geography, economics, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, politics, law and citizenship, and it has a rich content in terms of concepts. In this study, we tried to determine the perception of secondary school pupils about one of these concepts, concept of religion, through metaphors. The study was structured with the phenomenological design which is one of the qualitative designs. The study group was 235 pupils attending 6 th and 7 th grades in secondary schools in Kütahya central and Altıntaş district in 2015-2016 academic years. The data were collected by means of a form consisting a sentence: "Religion is like ......… because ……...". The content analysis method was used to analyze and interpret on data. Totally 112 different metaphors related to religion were uttered by pupils. The most uttered metaphors were light, moon, sun, star and road metaphors. After the content analysis, the metaphors were grouped under different categories and organized in these topics: a guiding, counselling foundation (%46.37); a protective, saver foundation (%9.79); an educative, instructive foundation (%8.09); a necessary foundation (%6.38); a precious foundation (%5.11); a limitless, infinite foundation (%5.11); a reflective, rewarding foundation (%5.11); a connecting foundation (%4.68); a purifying foundation (%3.83); a developing foundation (%2.98) and a formal foundation (%2.55). The results suggested that pupils' perceptions of religion were positive regarding the categories and the uttered metaphors.

Middle School Eighth Grade Students’ Perceptions of the Flag

“…In Türkiye, there are various metaphor and drawing studies in the literature to determine students" perceptions of the values in the curriculum or national values (i.e. Akyol & Kızıltan, 2019;Ceylan, 2016;Çapar, 2019;Çatak & Yıldız, 2018;Duran, 2018;Faiz & Karasu Avcı, 2019;Gazel & Yıldırım, 2018;Göksu, 2020;Gömleksiz & Öner, 2016;İnel et al, 2018;Karaçanta, 2013;Sönmez & Akıncan, 2013). Some studies have obtained limited data about the flag.…”