Preservice Teachers' Metaphors about the Concept of Space Perception

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reveal the metaphors produced by the students of the Faculty of education regarding the concept of space perception. In accordance with this aim, the phenomenon design from qualitative research designs was used. The working group consists of 261 teachers who study in the Departments of Bayburt University Faculty of Education, Turkish, Social Sciences and primary education in the 2018-2019 academic year. “Perception of spatial” in order to determine the metaphors produced by the teacher candidates for the concept of “perception of spatial"... like/is similar to because... "the semi-structured form containing the statement was distributed and they were asked to convey their thoughts. The data obtained at the end of the study were analyzed in accordance with the content analysis. Participants produced a total of 109 valid metaphors for the concept of space perception, and these metaphors were grouped under 10 different categories. As a result of the study, it was determined that half of the teachers associated the concept of space perception directly with the words that contain the meaning of the concept of space.