Abstract:

The development of technology brings with it new world order and affects all humanity. The change of human needs creates new needs, values in the education environment, and forces teachers and school structures to change by revealing the necessity of making new arrangements accordingly. In this case, learning the school perceptions of teachers and students, which are among the crucial parts of the school building, will provide important clues for strengthening education. In this study, metaphors were preferred to reveal student and teacher perceptions about school and teacher concepts. The research aims to determine the meaning that teachers and students in the field of information technologies have on the concepts of teachers and schools and their mental images about these concepts with the help of metaphors. The scope of the study included teachers working in the field of information technologies and students studying in this field of a secondary education institution in Düzce, which provides vocational and technical education. A qualitative research method was used in this research. The case study pattern, which is a qualitative research method, was preferred. Data was collected through the metaphors of qualitative data collection tools, and descriptive analysis techniques were used in data analysis. According to the findings of the study, the participants generally perceive the school positively. While most of the participant teachers perceived the teacher as guiding , the majority of the students considered it instructive and informative.

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