ANALYSIS OF PRESCHOOL TEACHERS AND PRESERVICE TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF “CHILD” THROUGH METAPHORS
Preschool education is an important process that will affect the future life of the child. Scientific researches and applications in the field of contemporary education; has revealed that it is necessary to start education at a very young age in order to raise the generations with qualified, healthy...
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Fırat University
2021
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| Sumario: | Preschool education is an important process that will affect the future life of the child. Scientific researches and applications in the field of contemporary education; has revealed that it is necessary to start education at a very young age in order to raise the generations with qualified, healthy and desired behaviors. Along with the increasing importance of child education, it was realized that a qualified education should be given at home. Preschool teachers are the most important element of this process. In order for the teaching-learning process to be effective, a very special relationship must be established between the teacher and the student. Preservice teacher is a student of higher education institution that continues the teaching undergraduate program within the universities, performs teaching practice in its field, and has the qualifications to fulfill the teaching profession in its field when it completes its education and training. Metaphor is the indirect expression of a concept, situation or object, not directly with itself, using another concept or object. The problem sentence of the research was determined as "What are the perceptions of pre-school teachers and preservice teachers towards the concept of" child "? The phenomenon science (phenomenology) pattern was used in this qualitative study. In the evaluation of the data, content analysis technique is included. The participants of the research consist of 60 preschool teachers working in Malatya in the 2019-2020 academic year and 60 preservice teachers (15 + 15 + 15 + 15) studying at İnönü University. A total of 120 people were employed. As a result of this research, the metaphors determined by preschool teachers and prospective teachers for the concept of “child” were collected in 9 terms. While teachers used the most "object" (f26) metaphor to the concept of "child", preservice teachers used the metaphor of "live" (f18). |
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