The Teachers of the Future within the Framework of Educational Philosophies: A Metaphoric Study

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to examine the future teachers' thoughts about what kind of a teacher they want to be in the future via metaphors. In this direction, it is wanted 230 pre-service teachers who study in Dicle University Ziya Gökalp Faculty of Education in 2011-2012 academic year to complete the sentences of "I want to be a teacher like …….. Because………". The data obtained from this study were analyzed by using qualitative and quantitative research methods. According to results of this study, participants produced 193 valid metaphors about teacher concept that they want to be in the future. These metaphors collected under four categories which are progressive teachers of the future, reconstructivist teachers of the future, perennial teachers of the future and essentialist teachers of the future in terms of common characteristics of metaphors. According to results obtained from this study, pre-service teachers mostly adopt progressivism educational philosophy and they adopt essentialist educational philosophy at the lowest rate.