Metaphors for Pre-School Teachers and Teacher Candidates' Course Students Cover Image

Okul Öncesi Öğretmenlerinin Ve Öğretmen Adaylarının Kaynaştırma Öğrencisine Yönelik Metaforları
Metaphors for Pre-School Teachers and Teacher Candidates' Course Students

Author(s): Mehmet Kök, Aslı Balci, Şeyma Bilgiz
Subject(s): Preschool education, Present Times (2010 - today), Inclusive Education / Inclusion, Sociology of Education
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: integration student; preschool teacher; preschool teacher candidate; metaphor;

Summary/Abstract: This research was conducted in order to determine the metaphors of pre-school teachers and teacher candidates regarding the concept of "integration student". Present study was conducted according to the pattern of qualitative research methods. The study group included 60 pre-school teachers working in Erzurum province in 2016-2017 academic year and 100 teacher candidates studying in the 3rd and 4th classes of Atatürk University Kazim Karabekir Education Faculty Preschool Education Program. As a means of data collection in the study, a questionnaire on the demographic information of the study group and a questionnaire containing the metaphor studies were used to reveal the perceptions of the concept of " integration student ". In the questionnaire a complementary sentence “integration student is …….. because …..” was used. It was determined from the results of the study that the categories in which pre-school teachers and candidate teachers are gathering metaphor for the integration students are mostly positive, and the metaphors are mostly collected under the conceptual category "Students who can be improved as an individual". On the other hand, it was seen that the metaphor of some teacher and teacher candidates were gathered under negative conceptual categories such as "Student of integration as a hard individual to be improved" and "integration student as an individual excluded by society".

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 290-302
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Turkish