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Full Length Research Paper
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Metaphors
suggested by teachers and students on the concept of school
health
Mukadder Boydak ÖZAN1 and Tuncay Yavuz ÖZDEMİR2
1Faculty
of Education, Department of Educational Science, Firat
University, Elazig, Turkey.
2Student Faculty of Education, Department of Educational
Science, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey.
*Corresponding author.
E-mail:
boydakozan@hotmail.com.
Accepted 9 November 2009 |
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Abstract |
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By virtue of this study, conducted among teachers and students
from the Technical and Vocational High Schools in Elazığ
province of Turkey, it has been aimed to identify their
perceptions on the concept of “school health”.
Within the framework of this general aim, participants were
given blank questionnaires, including the statements, as “School
health is like …; because …”, and asked to fill in these blank
questionnaires.
Workgroup of this study in the educational term of 2008-2009, is
comprised of 34 teachers and 146 students from Gazi Technical
and Vocational High School, located in Elazığ Centrum.
Study was conducted within the frame of “content analysis”
model, being assessed within the paradigm of qualitative
research.
Upon reviewing each and every one of the answers given by the
teachers and students, in response to the semi-structured,
open-ended questionnaires they received, metaphors suggested
respectively by the teachers and students were processed by
analysts. Taking the views from 125 students out of the total of
146, and 30 teachers out of the total 34 into consideration, 88
valid metaphors from the students, and 29 from the teachers have
been attained.
Taking the generated metaphors list into consideration, it was
examined how each metaphor conceptualized the concept of school
health.
At the next stage, correlating each metaphor image with a
specific theme, a total of 10 different conceptual categories
were attained.
According to the outcomes, attained from the study, metaphors,
being suggested by 47% of the teachers for defining school
health as per their schools, were classified under the “image of
negativity”, those, being suggested by 19.2% of the students for
defining school health as per their schools, were classified
under the “well of life”.
Thus, metaphors, being suggested by students for defining school
health, seem to reveal a much more optimistic nature, in
comparison with those being suggested by teachers.
It would be worthwhile to examine the professional exhaustion to
the part of teachers, due to the negative developments to have
occurred in their schools for the recent years.
Key words:
Metaphor, organization, school health, metaphors related with
school health. |
