Abstract:

In this study, the perceptions of class teaching students studying at different class levels at the educational faculty are identified and evaluated towards the concept of "educational technology". The purpose of the research is to identify how the concept of "educational technology", which is considered important for the education-educational life in the name of making human life more efficient, means in practice, and how it is metaphorically perceived by students. In this study, where the class teacher candidates are trying to determine the metaforic perceptions of the concept of "educational technology", the research patterns of the quality have been used by the factual science design. The research work group is made up of class teaching students studying at the Faculty of Education of Kahramanmaraş Sütçü Imam University in the 2017-2018 educational year. The study group consists of class 2, 3 and 4 class 153 teaching students selected by the sample method for the purpose. In the research, the data was obtained with the help of a form consisting of a missing sentence that contains the question "Education Technology... because..." prepared by the researcher. The study found that 102 metaphors were produced by the participants. The metaphors are divided into categories according to their similarities in the meaning of each other, which contains 7 positive meanings. The 46 produced metaphors and the excessive number of metaphors are the category "educational technology as a symbol of the basic need" (f=74). The metaphors are the metaphors of “water”, “sole”, “book”, “brain”. The category with the minimum number of students (f=7) in which the metafor is produced is defined as "educational technology as a symbol of development". The conclusion is that class teacher candidates have a positive perception of the concept of education technology and do not produce a negative metafor in relation to the concept.

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