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Savaskan, Vafa – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
We aimed to determine high school student perceptions about the literature course based on metaphors. We conducted the study with the phenomenology model, a qualitative research method. The study group included 137 students (57 female and 80 male students) attending ninth to twelfth grades at four public high schools in Sinop province in Turkey.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, High School Students, Literature, Student Attitudes
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Mary E. Pilgrim; Kristin Tenney; Sue Doe – Journal of Education, 2025
Women and people of color continue to be underrepresented in mathematics. Thus, mathematics graduate teaching assistants' (GTAs') classroom experiences are often dominated by individuals who are white and/or male. This sends a problematic message about who can access and engage with mathematics. To better understand their educational experiences,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Professional Identity, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Students
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Demir, Ümran – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
In the contemporary education approach, the concepts of satisfaction, teamwork and motivation of school stakeholders, especially the concept of satisfaction are considered important along with approaches such as Human Resources Management, Effective School and Total Quality Management. If it is accepted that the student is at the center of the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Student Attitudes, School Attitudes, Student Satisfaction
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Avsar, Züleyha; Yanar Tunçel, Nazli – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
The attitudes of secondary school students towards physical education and sports lessons and their teachers were tried to be determined through metaphors in this study. In the study, in which the mixed research method was used, the convergent parallel design was adopted. In the research, "physical education teacher evaluation scale based on…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Physical Education, Figurative Language
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Gürler, Demet Aydinli – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this research is to examine the pop music metaphors developed by high school students. In this study, the phenomenology model, which is one of the qualitative research methods, has been used. A total of 650 students from a public school in Province Ankara, District Mamak, attended the study during the spring semester of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Culture, Music, Figurative Language
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Zübeyde Er; Perihan Dinç Artut – Journal on Mathematics Education, 2023
This research aims to determine the metaphorical perceptions of gifted and normally developing students attending primary education regarding solving mathematical problems. In the research, the qualitative research method was employed. In the 2022-2023 academic year, 206 students studying at the primary school level in Turkey were determined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Gifted, Academically Gifted
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Chan, Kan Kan; Reynolds, Barry Lee – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
Students' beliefs and attitudes have a direct impact on their behavior and engagement in the learning of mathematics. This study examined students' beliefs of dynamic mathematics lessons through the lens of the contemporary theory of metaphor. Participants of the study were grade 10 students in a Macao private secondary school. 51 students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 10, Private Schools
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Hazar, Esin; Yildiz, Hatice; Bozpolat, Ebru – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
This research examines how Turkish undergraduates construct "campus" metaphors to represent their opinions about campus phenomenon in the context of a Turkish university. The present study adopted a phenomenological approach. The participants of this study were 92 students in the 2020-2021 academic year from different faculties and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Environment, Campuses
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Alivernini, Fabio; Cavicchiolo, Elisa; Manganelli, Sara – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
The ever-increasing presence of immigrants in Italian schools make these contexts important for the study of young peoples' attitudes towards those who are new to a country. We analysed the metaphors regarding immigrants produced by a sample of 840 eighth-grade students. The results of a content analysis showed nine complex attitudes referring to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Student Attitudes
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Çekirdekci, Sitki – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2020
The aim of this study is to reveal the perceptions of fourth-grade primary students about "mathematics lesson" through metaphors and to investigate whether main categories identified regarding the common characteristics of the metaphors differed by gender. A qualitative research design was employed in the study. The study was carried out…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Gokmen, Ahmet – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
This study aims to investigate metaphors of pre-service teachers, the potential future educational leaders, regarding sustainability according to their knowledge level of sustainability. The study utilized the convergent research method, one of the mixed-method research designs based on both quantitative and qualitative data. The participants…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Leadership Role, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level
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Reed, Vicki A.; Trumbo, Susan – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2020
Typically developing, American adolescents in Grade 10 (n = 38) ranked the relative importance of 14 communication skills in their friends' communication with them. The skills were considered those associated with figurative language (e.g., appropriate slang use), empathy (e.g., vocal tone comprehension), or discourse management (e.g., appropriate…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 10, High School Students, Communication Skills
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Wang, Jingying; Yang, Mingyue – Education and Urban Society, 2021
The survival and development of migrant students in urban areas were always the focus of all sectors of society. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects are most likely to cause learning difficulties for migrant students, and the beliefs of STEM teachers about migrant students and their role closely affect classroom…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Urban Areas, STEM Education, Teacher Attitudes
Önel, Arzu; Durdukoca, Sule Firat – Online Submission, 2021
The aim of this study is to examine whether reading habits have any effects on the academic achievement of the biology course of high school students in Turkey. In the research, the relational screening model was preferred from the quantitative research models and the phenomenological approach was preferred from the qualitative research models, so…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Academic Achievement, High School Seniors
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Murathan, Fatih – International Education Studies, 2019
The main aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions of students who participate in sports organizations in universities regarding the term "sports". With this main aim, the perception of the term was explained by metaphors. The study group includes 108 female and 112 male volunteer students, who studied in various departments of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Athletics, Team Sports, College Students
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