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Hüseyin Kocasaraç; Nokulunga Sithabile Ndlovu – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
This study explored and compared metaphorical perceptions of "Innovative Education" among 100 in-service teachers from Turkey and South Africa during the 2020-2021 academic year. A phenomenological research design was adopted for this qualitative investigation. Teachers accessed an online platform to complete the open-ended prompt:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language
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Akman, Özkan; Açikgöz, Bedriye – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Metaphor is a tool that helps us perceive the world by expressing more than word art. Metaphors are used in certain areas of education. It appears in different ways in the fields of literature, philosophy, sociology, educational sciences, social studies. Teachers also tell concrete and abstract data through metaphors to make it easier to keep in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language, Cognitive Processes, Phenomenology
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Kaban, Abdullatif – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
Social media, one of the modern communications and socialization channels, has become one of the indispensable tools of education. This study, it was aimed to reveal the perceptions of teachers, students, and parents about the concept of "social media" through metaphor. In this study, which used a phenomenology design, which is one of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Ekoç-Özçelik, Arzu – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic brought life to an unexpected halt, and all levels of education including higher education had abrupt changes from face-to-face teaching to emergency remote teaching to sustain the continuity of education. English preparatory schools that provide newly-enrolled university students with one-year intensive English language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Asmali, Mehmet; Çelik, Handan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Metaphors reflect the way people think and know the world. When they are considered within teaching profession, they can be strong agents revealing teachers? beliefs about their profession. They may also explore the meaning that teachers attach to themselves. Despite their strength to shed light on how teachers conceptualize themselves, metaphor…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Sahin, Süleyman Hilmi – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study was to try to explain the perceptions of undergraduate students regarding geography concept using metaphors. A total of 192 students studying in the Department of Social Studies at Kütahya Dumlupinar University in the academic year 2014-2015 participated in this research. In the study following questions were searched to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Geography, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Liaquat, Sehrish; Naz, Anjum – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2016
Teaching metaphor is an important phenomenon which can be used to determine teachers' perceptions regarding their job and their workplace (Turunen, 2003). This study was aimed to explore the metaphors of junior and senior teacher educators to get insights of what teaching was for them. A comparative analysis between the junior and senior teacher…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes
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Fisher-Ari, Teresa R.; Lynch, Heather L. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
As teacher educators in an alternative certification and master's programme, we support Teach For America (TFA) teachers who are developing understandings of learning, teaching, and curriculum while they are already working full-time in classrooms. Using critical discourse analysis, we analysed 109 metaphors for curriculum created by 27 novice TFA…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Novices, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis
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Emerson, Lisa; Mansvelt, Juliana – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Metaphors are a primary influence on the way we perceive and construct our world; they are also a way of revealing beliefs and attitudes that might otherwise be difficult to identify. Furthermore, metaphor has been found to be an effective way of shifting people's beliefs, attitudes and behaviour. This paper details the findings of a pilot study…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries
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Karam, Ricardo – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
Physics education research has shown that students tend to struggle when trying to use mathematics in a meaningful way in physics (e.g., mathematizing a physical situation or making sense of equations). Concerning the possible reasons for these difficulties, little attention has been paid to the way mathematics is treated in physics instruction.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Physics, Role, Case Studies
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Bamwesiga, Penelope Mbabazi; Dahlgren, Lars-Owe; Fejes, Andreas – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2012
In this study, we aim to explore and thematically analyze higher education teachers' notions about the most important problems related to students' learning, including the teachers' notions about the approaches to learning adopted by students. The study was carried out in Rwanda with 25 university teachers engaged in group interviews. Inspired by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Problems, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Mellado, Lucia; Bermejo, Maria Luisa; Mellado, Vicente – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Using the responses to open questions, this qualitative study examines the personal metaphors expressed by prospective secondary education teachers, 46 science graduates and 41 economics graduates. The metaphors are classified into the four categories of Leavy, McSorley, and Bote: the behaviourist/transmissive, the cognitivist/constructivist, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Study, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Saban, Aslihan – Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the metaphors of exit-level Turkish computer teacher candidates about the concept of "internet". Participants included 45 seniors (23 boys and 22 girls) majoring in the Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies at Selcuk University, Ahmet Kelesoglu Faculty of Education. They were asked…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Content Analysis, Internet, Figurative Language
Chung, Mi-Hyun; Miller, JungKang – Multicultural Education, 2011
It is essential for teachers and teacher educators alike to understand how teachers conceptualize multicultural education. It is such understandings that will help a teacher education program meet the real needs of both the teachers and their students. After all, it is the teacher who works with diversity in the classroom and who must make…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Literacy Education, Multicultural Education, Teacher Education Programs