Abstract:

The main purpose of this study is to determine the perceptions of the students who are transferred from primary to secondary education on the adaptation process of secondary education. In this regard, the research was structured based on the phenomenology model, which is one of the qualitative research models. Phenomenology is a qualitative research design that allows to uncover cases that are aware but require in-depth research to be detailed (Patton, 2002; Sanders, 1982). The study group consists of 150 students studying at a high school in Siirt province in 2018-2019. The semi-structured form was used to determine the metaphoric perceptions of students from primary to secondary education. Metaphors reached by data collection tool were analyzed in accordance with content analysis. Content analysis is defined as a systematic, reproducible technique in which some words of a text are summarized in smaller content categories by coding based on certain rules. A total of 128 students produced 86 valid metaphors for secondary education.

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