ÖĞRETMEN ADAYLARININ BAKIŞ AÇISIYLA “ÖĞRETMEN ADAYI”

“TEACHER CANDIDATE” FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHER CANDIDATES

Abstract

Teacher training includes all activities carried out within a certain period of time in order to prepare for the teaching profession; The person who takes part in this training is called "Teacher candidate". The views of young people receiving teaching education on the expression "teacher candidate" and the meanings they attribute to the concept of "teacher candidate"; It can provide us with an idea about the internship process and professional perceptions. For this reason, the study aimed to examine the perceptions of social studies teacher candidates regarding the expression 'teacher candidate' through metaphors. Phenomenology, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. In the 2021-2022 academic year, the study was conducted with 65 social studies teacher candidates who were studying in the fourth grade at Gazi University Gazi Faculty of Education and were selected through purposeful sampling. The sample group participating in the research was asked to complete a sentence such as "The teacher candidate is like ............... Because.....". In this way, participants were asked to establish a connection between the subject of the metaphor and the source. Content analysis method was used to analyze the research data. According to the research results; Social studies teacher candidates produced 36 metaphors in 5 categories regarding the expression 'teacher candidate'. 4 of these metaphors have negative meanings and 32 have positive meanings. Categories created from the metaphors obtained; It was named as "developing teacher candidate, shaping teacher candidate, struggling teacher candidate, goal-oriented teacher candidate and self-confident teacher candidate".