Preschool teachers’/principals’ feelings matter: their metaphoric perceptions on academicians

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis study focuses on preschool teachers’/principals’ perceptions on ‘academicians’ via the metaphors they produced. ‘Academic Metaphor Form’ is applied to 65 preschool teachers/principals (64 female and 1 male) during the spring term of 2018. The research was designed as a phenomenological study, a qualitative research method. To analyze the data, content analysis technique is used. This study revealed that participants see academicians far from constructivist and student-centered approach. The distribution of the metaphors considering their positive and negative production is discussed.