Abstract:

It is very important to know how the concept of lecturer is perceived by students studying in physical education and sports teaching departments of universities, and what the perspectives of students studying in the department of physical education and sports teaching towards this concept are very important. This study aims to reveal the thoughts of the students of the physical education and sports teaching department about the instructors in their departments through metaphors. In this study, qualitative research model was used and phenomenological design was used. The study group consists of 70 girls and 80 boys, a total of 150 students from the department of physical education and sports teaching. To the students included in the study ‘‘ Teaching staff ……. is like because….... ". The data were obtained by asking the questions in the open-ended questionnaire that contains the statement. In this context, the metaphors developed by the students in the analysis and interpretation of the data were evaluated using the content analysis technique. Content analysis was performed by following the stages of naming, elimination, category development, providing validity and reliability, and interpretation according to the created metaphors. Among the striking results of the study, it can be said that the students produced the most different metaphors about the instructor in the negative situation dimension category, and the most frequently repeated metaphor was in the scientific category.

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