Metaphorical Perceptions on Curriculum Development made by the Leading Scholars in Turkey Studying Curriculum Development
Abstract
Curriculum development field has substantial contributions to education-related problems, for the sake of field’s development it is important to know how scholars in the field perceive curric-ulum development and what kind of meanings they attribute to it. The aim of this research is to be informed of metaphorical perceptions about curriculum development and related research field, constructed by leading scholars, who had studied curriculum development. In this study qualitative method was used, and after having asked learned opinions researchers developed and conducted: “Meeting Form on Metaphorical Perceptions on Curriculum Development” as eval-uation instrument. Related data were gathered through evaluation instrument and were en-coded according to themes; and name of the category, context of the category, main feature of the category and the frequency of usage were calculated for metaphors that reflect certain char-acteristic in each category. From the metaphors about curriculum development and the research field, it was inferred that participants perceived the field within a wide conjecture and interest-ingly projected its contributions to science.
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