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The purpose of this research is to determine the metaphoric perceptions that science knowledge teachers candidates have towards the concept of "Biology Laboratory". The sample of the study consists of 61 science knowledge teachers candidates who study at the Faculty of Education of a state university in the province of Istanbul. The data, which is obtained by the quality research method, is used in this study by the fact scientific design. Scientific knowledge requires teachers candidates to complete the phrase "Biology laboratory is like ... because ..." to determine their ideas about the biology laboratory. In the analysis of data, content analysis is used. According to the data provided by the research, science knowledge teachers have found that the applicable 52 different metaphors are produced in relation to the concept of "biology laboratory" and that these metaphors are gathered under 7 conceptual categories in terms of the common characteristics they carry. The data were analyzed in 7 categories, ranked in the form of information and learning environments, discovery environments, production environments, vehicle-to-road environments, study environments, entertaining environments and sustainable impact environments. Given the sum of categories, it has been determined that teaching candidates produce metaphors consisting of positive perceptions regarding the biology laboratory and mostly use the "Culinary" metaphor (n=5) .

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The aim of this study is to determine the pre-service science teachers’ metaphorical perceptions about the concept of “biology laboratory”. The study group of the research consists of 61 pre-service science teachers studying at the Faculty of Education of a public university in İstanbul. In this study, the data of which was obtained by the qualitative research method; the phenomenology pattern was used. Preservice science teachers were asked to complete the sentence “Biology laboratory is like …, because …” to reveal what kind of thoughts they had about the biology laboratory. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. According to the data obtained from the research; It was observed that pre-service science teachers produced 52 different metaphors related to the concept of “biology laboratory,” and these metaphors were collected under 7 conceptual categories in terms of their common characteristics. The data were analyzed under 7 categories, which are listed as information acquisition and learning environment, discovery environment, production environment, equipment environment, examination environment, amusing environment and the environment with lasting effect. When looking at the total of the categories, it was determined that pre-service science teachers produced metaphors consisting of positive perceptions about the biology laboratory and mostly used “Kitchen” metaphor (n=5).