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Demirbilek, Nesip; Korkmaz, Celalettin – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
This research aimed to examine the meanings attributed to the concept of studying in line with the opinions of university students. As one of the qualitative research methods, phenomenology design was used. Convenience sampling technique was used to determine the study group. 353 senior university students, studying at Inonu University in the…
Descriptors: Study, Assignments, Figurative Language, Language Usage
Bulut, Ayhan – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language, Natural Resources
Kravchenko, Nataliia; Zhykharieva, Olena; Kononets, Yuliia – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The study identifies the archetypal motives of the Hero and the Seeker in modern rap lyrics, demonstrating a certain archetypal basis of the rap artists' identity. The problem of the archetype-identity correlation has been solved through the use of the method prioritizing the discursive role invariant as the index of the artists' both psychic…
Descriptors: Music, Musicians, Self Concept, Correlation
Keri, Zsuzsanna; Elbatarny, Hisham S. – HAPS Educator, 2021
Analogies are useful pedagogical tools to introduce new and difficult concepts to students by building connections to familiar things from our daily life. Research has shown that applying analogies during the learning process facilitates the development of higher order thinking. In this article, we present a number of analogies that have been…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Science Education
Frizelle, Kerry – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2021
Who we are and who we become as educators is intimately connected to the historical and socio-political milieus in which we, ourselves, were educated and continue to work as educators. In this article I demonstrate how conventional conceptual metaphors are effective analytical lenses, through which we can explore our personal educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Secondary Education
Bulut, Ayhan – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
Okur, Murat – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2021
In this study, it was aimed to determine the metaphors of pre-service science teachers about the concept of "virus" during the pandemic process. Qualitative research approach and accordingly phenomenology method were preferred in this study. The study group consists of 47 volunteer pre-service science teachers, chosen by purposeful…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Figurative Language, Student Attitudes
Aydemir, Arcan; Çetin, Turhan – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
The study aimed to determine the perceptions of preservice social studies teachers about communication; metaphors were employed to determine communication skill perceptions. In the study, a qualitative research method known as phenomenology design was employed. The study group included 127 preservice social studies teachers in various classes. In…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Social Studies
Bas, Gökhan – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2021
This study was conducted to examine which metaphors teachers attribute to educational reforms. This research adopted a phenomenological design, in which the data were collected through metaphors. The findings indicated that teachers have negative beliefs about educational reforms. Also, the findings showed that teachers have traditional beliefs…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Phenomenology, Educational Change, Figurative Language
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
Mavis Sevim, Özge – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2021
This study aimed to reveal the perceptions of prospective teachers about the concept of morality. The study group consisted of 141 prospective teachers from the Faculty of Education 1st year Art Teaching, Turkish Language Teaching, and Elementary Mathematics Teaching Departments at a university in the Middle Black Sea Region in the 2019-2020…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Moral Values
These Roots That Bind Us: Using Writing to Process Grief and Reconstruct the Self in Chronic Illness
Bertrand, Jennifer – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2021
Chronic illness diagnoses frequently cause the shattering of personal assumptions about the self and the world, resulting in an experience of alienation and fragmentation of identity. Multiple studies on the effects of expressive writing have demonstrated physical, emotional, and psychological health benefits, yet little is known about how it…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Grief, Coping, Expressive Language
Fairchild, Sarah; Papafragou, Anna – Cognitive Science, 2021
In sentences such as "Some dogs are mammals," the literal semantic meaning ("Some 'and possibly all' dogs are mammals") conflicts with the pragmatic meaning ("'Not all' dogs are mammals," known as a "scalar implicature"). Prior work has shown that adults vary widely in the extent to which they adopt the…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Theory of Mind, Semantics, Pragmatics
Cartwright, Kelly B.; Duke, Nell K. – Reading Teacher, 2019
Reading involves and is influenced by many factors, which makes reading difficult to understand, teach, and explain to parents, policymakers, and other stakeholders. A metaphor of driving, which likens reading to an everyday practice, demystifies complexities inherent in reading. Both reading and driving are active, strategic processes. Just as…
Descriptors: Models, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Figurative Language
Ntabo, Victor Ondara; Onyango, James Ogola; Ndiritu, Nelson Ng'arua – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
Food is useful in the transference of semantic aspects that are vital in the construction of masculinity in society. Consequently, foodsemic metaphors that aid in the conceptualization of "omosacha" (a man) are pervasive in Ekegusii. Metaphor use may, however, present difficulties in comprehension due to the various interpretations that…
Descriptors: Food, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, Masculinity