Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the pre-service teachers' perceptions related to teacher / Turkish language teacher concepts through metaphors. The study group consists of first and fourth grade undergraduate students from Department of Turkish Language Teaching of Faculty of Education of Ağrı province and graduate students from Turkish Language Education in 2018-2019 academic years. The research data was collected with open ended questions. With the questions as “How do you think the concept teacher can be expressed with different words? Why?” related to teacher concept, “What is the first reaction and the first sentence you hear from the people when you tell them that you are a Turkish language teacher/study in the department of Turkish Language Teaching?” related to Turkish language teacher concept, and “What are the three words that you think of when Turkish language teacher is mentioned?” related to Turkish language teacher concept, preferability levels of the metaphors were determined with frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation; and t test was used to determine the difference between gender and views of the participants according to grade. According to the results obtained from the study, it was determined that the participants presented both positive and negative metaphors related to the questions. While a high number of positive metaphors such as educator / instructor, leading / guide / leader and father / mother, compassion, laborer, friend, honest, self-sacrificing, hope are produced, negative metaphors such as Hope killer / hangman and expropriator are also produced. Of the metaphors produced about the Turkish language teacher, the first four came out as silver-tongued/ calligraphic, grammar, book and poet / poem. In addition, metaphors like Unemployed and With Poor Turkish/Short-tempered were also produced.
Highlights
The concept of qualified work force and teacher emerges as the most basic concept of both the 21st century and education systems
With the questions as “How do you think the concept teacher can be expressed with different words? Why?” related to teacher concept, “What is the first reaction and the first sentence you hear from the people when you tell them that you are a Turkish language teacher/study in the department of Turkish Language Teaching?” related to Turkish language teacher concept, and “What are the three words that you think of when Turkish language teacher is mentioned?” related to Turkish language teacher concept, preferability levels of the metaphors were determined with frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation; and t test was used to determine the difference between gender and views of the participants according to grade
In order to reveal the perceptions of the students participating in the research regarding the concept of “Teacher and Turkish Language Teacher”, a form on which “How do you think the concept teacher can be expressed with different words?” Why?”, “What is the first reaction and the first sentence you hear from the people when you tell them that you are a Turkish language teacher/study in the department of Turkish Language Teaching?” and “Write the three words that you think of when Turkish language teacher is mentioned?” was given to each of the participants
Summary
The concept of qualified work force and teacher emerges as the most basic concept of both the 21st century and education systems. In the comparison of international education systems, it has been determined that the success rates of the countries with qualified teachers are higher than the others. The active interaction of teachers with all elements contributes directly to student success while determining the quality of education and society. The teacher is the trusted person, the substitute parent, student advisor, colleague and community participant. These are the images given to the teacher in relation to his profession.”; Özden (2002) defined it as “The architects of a country’s future are teachers. Teachers play very important roles in the fates of countries.”; Çelikten (2006) defined it as “The quality of the new generations will undoubtedly be identical with the quality of the teachers who train them. The teacher is the human architect, an artist who shapes the personality of the human being.”
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