Investigation of The Middle School Students’ Perceptions About Textbooks Through Metaphors

Abstract

In this study it is aimed to determine the perceptions of the middle school students about textbooks through metaphors. For this purpose, the following questions were searched in the study: 1) What are the metaphors for middle school students about textbooks? 2) What conceptual categories can be gathered for the common features of metaphor emerging for textbooks? In the research, phenomenology which is one of the qualitative research designs was used. The participants of the research are 464 middle school students (235 boys, 226 girls) in Akyazı district of Sakarya Province in the academic year of 2017-2018. Data were reached with semi-structured forms. In order to reveal the metaphors related to the textbooks from the students who participated in the research, students are asked to complete the sentences "Textbooks ................... similar. Because ............. ".Data were analyzed through descriptive analysis. The findings from the research show that middle school students perceive textbooks in seven positive categories as “information source "," auxiliary resource "," guide "," happiness thing "," different world "," living object " and “others”; three negative categories as “Problem source", "unnecessary thing" and "burden".The students' metaphors for textbooks are most concentrated in the "information source" category. In this category, the most generated metaphors are the "information box" and the "computer" metaphors. The students' metaphors about textbooks are mostly concentrated in the "unnecessary" category. In this category, examples of metaphors such as "paper stack" and "empty box" are given

Keywords

• textbooks
• middle school students
• metaphors

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