Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Fen Bilgisi Laboratuvarına İlişkin Metaforik Algılarının İncelenmesi

In science education the laboratory, emerges as learning environments where learning takes place effectively, students feel comfortable, learning by living by doing and learning permanence is positively affected. In this context, the study tried to reveal what the metaphors (mental images) of secondary school students have about the science laboratory. A total of 95 secondary school students voluntarily participated in the study, including 44 boys and 51 girls studying in a socioeconomically lower level secondary school in a province by Eastern Anatolia in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The study was carried out in accordance with the phenomenology pattern, which is one of the qualitative research methods. In order to collect the data, i t is like “Science laboratory… ………. Because ……… .. ”sentence was asked and students were asked to fill in the blanks. Content analysis technique was used to analyze and interpret the study data. Students produced 50 different metaphors related to science laboratory and these metaphors were evaluated in seven different categories. Among these metaphors, 'science house', 'entertainment place' and 'Solar system' metaphors were used the most. Science laboratory as a place of information from these metaphors, science laboratory as a mysterious place to be wondered, science laboratory as a place of discovery, science laboratory as a place to prepare for life, science laboratory as a source of entertainment, science laboratory as a valuable and useful place, science laboratory as a necessary place for the lesson A total of seven different categories were reached.