Abstract:

This study is aimed to investigate the attitudes of 11th and 12th-grade students in Mersin Toroslar Anatolian High School towards music lessons according to different variables and to find out their perceptions regarding the concept of 'Music Lesson' through metaphors. In the research, the convergent parallel design, one of the mixed method designs, was used. The data of the research were collected with “metaphor”, the "Attitude Towards Secondary Education Music Course Scale" developed by Varış and Cesur (2012) and “Personal Information Form”. When the qualitative data results of the research are examined; it has been determined that the 11th and 12th-grade students produced a total of 134 metaphors, including 103 positive and 31 negative ones for the attitudes towards music lessons. It was found that female students produced 50 positives, and 9 negatives and male students produced 53 positives and 22 negative metaphors. It was concluded that the average of positive metaphors for the concept of music lessons of female students was 0.85, while male students' average of positive metaphors was 0.71. This result has shown that the attitudes of 11th and 12th-grade female students towards music lessons are higher than those of male students. It was concluded that the attitudes of 11th and 12th-grade male and female students towards the music lesson were at an average level with a positive metaphor average of 0.77. When the quantitative data results of the research were examined, it was found that the average attitude of the students towards the music lesson was 56.36 and the attitude of the students towards the music lesson was at an average level. On the other hand, it was concluded that there was no statistically significant difference according to the variables of students’ gender, grade level, and educational status of parents.

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