Abstract
Scientific knowledge is a kind of objective knowledge which is a systematic, valid, consistent, triable and provable. From this point of view, the metaphoric perceptions of pre-service teachers, who engaged in many scientific knowledge and processes during the teachers’ training process, were found worthy of investigation in this study. Study was designed on the basis of the phenomenology study design. 170 pre-service teachers enrolled in the preschool education department of one of the public university in the 2019-2020 academic year participated voluntarily in the study. The questionnaire form prepared by the researchers was used to find out current metaphorical perceptions of preservice teachers about the concept of “scientific knowledge”. In this study, a total of 139 metaphors related to scientific knowledge were created. Metaphors created by 170 preservice teachers participating in the study were categorized based on their commonalities and divided into nine categories.
Highlights
Science, dating back to ancient times, is a field of activity that has emerged with the motivation of understanding, knowing and learning the world and the universe
A total of 139 metaphors related to scientific knowledge were created by the preschool preservice teachers
Within the scope of the research, most of the metaphors created by preschool preservice teachers were found to be in the category of ‘scientific knowledge as an unchangeable–definitive structure’, and this category included 25 out of 139 metaphors created in total
Summary
Science, dating back to ancient times, is a field of activity that has emerged with the motivation of understanding, knowing and learning the world and the universe. The experience gained as a result of these efforts leads to the discovery of new information which, in the end, results in the growth of science like a snowball and the creation of different scientific fields. Another field of science which progresses through a cumulative process has been the transmission of discovered knowledge to the new generations. The need to transfer science and knowledge from generation to generation has led to the birth of education, which is another field of scientific study. Each new knowledge in philosophy, logic, mathematics, biology, history and geography has been transferred to learners in educational institutions and schools
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