Abstract:

The aim of this study is to explain primary school teachers’ professional values from the perspective of experts through metaphor. The study group consisted of, school administrators, primary school teachers, education inspectors, parents and the professoprs and associated proffesors working at the state universities and also experts in the field of elementary school teaching and total of 53 experts. For the study, in order to explain primary school teachers’ professional values all the participants were interviewed personally and they were asked to complete a sentence "primary teacher ... should look like, because ……"  by only focusing one metaphor. Data were analyzed via computer-aided qualitative data preparation (NVivo 11) program. As a result of this study, participants' metaphors about primary teachers were grouped under eight theme and they presented by supported with their image. The results of this research focused on two points; in particular; "teaching profession professional values", in special "primary school teaching professional values".

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