Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to compare the students’ metaphors of Geography Department and the Social Studies Teacher Education Program towards the concept of natural disaster. The accessible sample of the research consist of 206 Geography Department students and 110 the Social Studies Teacher Education Program students. Phenomenology, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study, and metafors obtained were classified and interpreted through content analysis. The students of Geography Department produced 194 valid metaphors, while the students of the Social Studies Teacher Education Program produced 81 valid metaphors. These metaphors were then grouped under the conceptual category of 11 for Geography Department and 8 for the Social Studies Teacher Education Program. As a result of the research, it was determined that the conceptual categories created for two departments were the same, and that Geography Department students also created different conceptual categories in addition. As a result; it can be said that the students of both departments produced metaphors in similar categories, but the metaphors of Geography Department students are more diverse than the ones of the Social Studies teacher candidates.

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