Abstract:

TThis study aimed to determine the metaphorical perceptions of pre-service teachers participating in the pedagogical formation certificate program about the concept of pedagogical formation certificate program student. Phenomenology design was used in the data collection. The study group of the research consisted of 417 pre-service teachers participating in the pedagogical formation training certificate program at the faculty of education of a state university located in the Western Black Sea Region in Türkiye in the 2022-2023 academic year. The data of the study were collected through a form prepared by the researchers asking "pedagogical formation program student is like (1)............/similar because (2)................" to an object, a shape, an animal or a living creature (metaphor/mental image) and to state the reason (justification/logical basis) for their similes. The documents were analyzed by content analysis method. As a result of the research, 52 metaphors developed by pre-service teachers taking part in pedagogical formation certificate program about the concept of pedagogical formation program student were collected in 16 different categories named as “dough, new born baby, storage space, warrior, turtle, guided person, lucky fish, mother, light, miserables, unprocessed mine, precious metal, dreamer, intermediary person, unconscious person, lego”.

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