Sustainability is a term that is expressed as the necessary conditions for the ecosystem to maintain its existence in a long process belonging to the science of ecology. It is a concept that has become widespread since the second half of the 20th century and has been associated with different fields such as social life, culture, law, politics,…

Inclusive education is an approach intended to reduce marginalisation of students with diverse needs and encourage them to participate in community life. But the truth is that teachers' attitudes towards inclusive practices and inclusive students have a tremendous impact on the success of inclusive education. In this study, 126 preschool teachers'…

The main purpose of this study is to investigate pre-school teachers' creativity perceptions through metaphors. This study is a pheno-menological study that is qualitative in nature. The participants were 250 pre-school teachers who worked in the central towns of Adana/Turkey. Data were collected through the Metaphor Questionnaire about the…

This research will explore preschool children's metaphorical perceptions and views about the concept of "global problem" in the context of education for sustainable development. The study will involve 20 preschool children, who are aged between 60 and 70 months and are attending a public kindergarten in Izmir, Turkey, during the Spring…

The aim of this study is to determine the mental images of preschool teachers' perceptions about nature through metaphors. Participating in the study on a voluntary basis it consists of a total of 106 preschool teachers. The phenomenology design from the qualitative research designs was administrated in this study aiming to specify the perceptions…

The aim of this study is to determine the mental images of preschool teachers' perceptions through metaphors about language development. Participating in the study was voluntary and a total of 110 preschool teachers participated in the study. The phenomenology design from the qualitative research designs was administrated in this study, aiming to…

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to determine the metaphorical perceptions of preschool teachers in regard with the concept of inclusive education. Methods: In this study, phenomenology design, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The study group of this research consists of preschool teachers, who have students…

The aim of this research is to reveal the metaphoric perceptions on the concept of "social skills" of preschool teachers. This study which has phenomenology design, one of the basic qualitative researches, was carried on 46 preschool teachers working in the provinces of Amasya, Çorum, Ordu, Samsun, and Tokat. The forms given teachers…

This study examined translingual practices in two playdates of a Korean four-year-old boy (Theo) with a Korean boy and an American boy. The boys played a game called "Candy Land." In both playdates, the boys' naturally occurring English and Korean communication strategies were observed and analyzed based on Canagarajah's (2013) four…

This 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…

This study aimed to determine the children's skills of comprehending similes. The participants of the research consisted of 120 children that were aged 5-6 and enrolled in preschool education institutions. The data were collected with a 16-item success test. The items in the test were orally administered to the participants during the interviews.…

Mathematics and science are important concepts that children's encounter in both daily and educational life. Early childhood is the time in which the first ideas of the mathematics and science developed. In this study, we investigated children's perceptions about mathematics and science through metaphors in terms of being able to provide rich…

The study aims to reveal teachers' perceptions of "COVID-19" and "School in the COVID-19 Process" through metaphors. The differences between the COVID-19 perceptions of those who had COVID-19 disease in the participants' families and those who did not were examined. Phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research methods,…

The purpose of this paper is (a) to investigate kindergarteners' perception of "school" through the impressions and images and (b) to find out the effect of these perceptions on their attitudes towards school in cooperation with kindergarten teachers. This qualitative study is based on metaphor technique; the data of which is derived…

The aim of this study was to determine the perceptions of teachers in Turkey towards inclusive education through metaphors. Phenomenology was adopted in this research. The study group of the research consisted of 120 teachers working in public schools in Turkey in 2019-2020 academic year. Snowball sampling, criterion sampling and maximum diversity…