Abstract:

The aim of this study is to gather the metaphors that high school students have created about the concept of "the teacher" and to reveal the ways in which students at high school level 5, 6, 7 and 8 perceive the concept of "the teacher" by classifying the metaphors gathered under various categories. The teacher and student relationship is important in the academic and social development of the student. The meanings that teachers and students put on each other can be explicit in terms of their roles. It is also believed that determining the perceptions of students about the concept of "the teacher" through metaphors will provide important information and perspectives especially to the educators. The data of the study were obtained from a total of 91 high school students, including 25th class, 22th class, 20th seventh class and 24th eighth class. In this study prepared using the metaphor method in the quality research, the participating students, "the teacher is.............gib; because the semi-structured forms that are written and the raw data obtained from here have formed the basic data source of the research. In the analysis and interpretation of data, the method of content analysis from the quality data analysis techniques has been used. According to the findings obtained, from the phrases written by 91 high school students who participated in the study, a total of 38 valid metaphors were developed. These metaphors were subsequently studied in terms of common characteristics and collected under 6 different conceptual categories.

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