Metaphorical Perceptions Of Secondary School Students Towards Social Studies Lesson And Social Studies Teacher

The aim of this study is to reveal the mental experiences of the social studies lesson, which is one of the important lessons that students take during primary and secondary school, and the teachers who teach this lesson.The study group of this research consists of 743 secondary school students (5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades) studying in the provinces of İpekyolu, Tusba and Edremit in the 2022/2023 academic year.The phenomenology design, which is one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the research.In this study, "Open Ended Interview Form" was used as a data collection tool.The metaphors developed by the participants were analyzed with the content analysis method. From the students' opinions It was seen that 250 concepts related to the social studies lesson were divided into 19 categories; 182 concepts related to social studies teachers were divided into 16 categories. The most dominant categories and metaphors for the social studies course are the metaphor of the discipline of history within the scope of the history category, the metaphor of life itself within the scope of the life category, and the metaphor of the world within the scope of the planet category; it has been determined that the most dominant categories and metaphors for social studies teachers are the metaphor of the scientist within the scope of the knowledge / wise category and the scientist category within the scope of the science / teacher category.