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Akman, Özkan; Ekici, Kübra; Koçak, Zeynep; Erdem, Cemil Can – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Using metaphors in education is a very effective method, especially in terms of learning abstract concepts and being memorable. For this reason, teachers use frequently metaphors in order to understand the concepts in their lessons. This study aims to determine teachers' perceptions of freedom and justice concepts through the metaphors they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Concept Formation, Teacher Attitudes
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McGarr, Oliver – Teaching Education, 2023
The metaphors used by teachers to explain the nature of student learning and student difficulty can reveal a great deal about how teachers conceive the teaching and learning process. This is an important area of research as it can shed light on how they see their role in the learning process and how they should intervene to assist students in…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language, Learning Processes
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E. J. Bahng; Julie A. Luft; Jonah Firestone – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
This study explored online mentoring dialogues of first-year science teachers (FYSTs) to construct a model that was informed by metaphors in teaching dilemmas. Nine teachers' yearlong threaded dialogues were archived and first analyzed by Windschitl's (2002) four dilemma categories, and later by Lakoff and Johnson's (2003) conceptual metaphor…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Barriers, Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers
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Ertok, Nese; Ummanel, Azize – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
The proper and thorough functioning of the education process is based on the cooperation of the elements in education. Among the elements that should cooperate and act in harmony are teachers, school administrators and experts in educational management and supervision. Further, a curriculum is needed for the education process to proceed in a…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Concept Formation, Role Perception, Teacher Attitudes
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Rupnow, Rachel; Randazzo, Brooke – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
Isomorphism and homomorphism appear throughout abstract algebra, yet how algebraists characterize these concepts, especially homomorphism, remains understudied. Based on interviews with nine research-active mathematicians, we highlight new sameness-based conceptual metaphors and three new clusters of metaphors: sameness/formal definition, changing…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Algebra, Concept Formation
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Ulas, Mehmet – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
This study aimed to explore the perceptions of other branch teachers towards physical education teachers and lessons through metaphors. A basic qualitative research model was used in this study. Two hundred twenty-one teachers working in various types of schools and branches in the 2018/2019 education year in Burdur, Turkey, constituted the study…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teacher Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Physical Education
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Bas, Gokhan; Senturk, Cihad – Research in Pedagogy, 2020
The purpose of this research was to examine teachers' perceptions regarding the concept of curriculum through metaphor analysis. In this research, "phenomenology research design" was adopted. The participants of the research consisted of volunteering teachers (n = 261) working in ten public high schools in the province of Nigde, Turkey.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, High School Teachers, Public Schools
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Ögülmüs, Kürsat; Okur, Mehmet – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
The purpose of this study is to reveal the metaphorical perceptions of parents with children with SLD and teachers who work with the children who have SLD. The design of this study is phenomenology, which is one of the qualitative research designs. The data collected in the study were analyzed by content analysis method. A total of 218…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Concept Formation, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
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Yurdakul, Bunyamin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
As the meaning that teachers attribute to curriculum includes important data concerning curriculum development as well as affects their teaching process, this study investigated the perceptions of elementary school teachers regarding the concept of curriculum. The participants of the study, which was carried out using the phenomenological design,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Curriculum Research, Concept Formation, Teacher Attitudes
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Shelley, Mack, Ed.; Akcay, Hakan, Ed.; Ozturk, Omer Tayfur, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
"Proceedings of International Conference on Research in Education and Science" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Research in Education and Science (ICRES) which took place on March 24-27, 2022 in Antalya, Turkey. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to discuss theoretical and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Peripherals, Equipment
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Mahlios, M.; Massengill-Shaw, D.; Barry, A. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to synthesize findings from three studies that have addressed the conceptualization and application of the metaphor construct to the study of teachers and teaching. With respect to the perspectives of elementary and secondary preservice teachers, we specifically examined how the particular metaphors they used indicated…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Sociolinguistics, Figurative Language
Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2015
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Time Management, Mathematics Instruction, Industry
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Allard, Andrea C. – Gender and Education, 2004
This article explores the images and metaphors that teachers use when speaking of their relations with students and examines how these images work to call into play particular constructs of gender relations. Of specific interest is the way teachers use binaries of open/closed, in control/out of control and maturity/immaturity to make sense of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Gender Differences, Concept Formation, Teacher Attitudes
Engel, Susan – Child Development Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, 2006
The author of this article examines two powerful metaphors that have shaped the way people have thought about young children over the past 75 years or so, and argues that these two models are off base. These metaphors are "The Wild Child" and "The Little Scientist." The earlier of these two metaphors is that of the Wild Child, which hearkens back…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Figurative Language, Young Children, Imagination
Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference includes the following research reports: (1) The Affective Views of Primary School Children (Peter Grootenboer); (2) Theoretical Model of Analysis of Rate Problems in Algebra (Jose Guzman, Nadine Bednarz and Fernando Hitt); (3) Locating Fractions on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Validity