The Pre-School Teacher Candidate's Metaphorical Thinking About the Concept of Music Learning

AbstractIn recent years, metaphors became the subject and center of the increasing interests in educational sciences. In this study, the purpose is to determine metaphorical thoughts of pre-school teacher candidate's about the concept of music learning. The data were analyzed by qualitative method. To analyze the data, content analysis method was employed. Data was collected through the use of the phrase “Music learning is like. . because. . .” and analyzed through the following stages: In the first stage, all of the metaphorical images supplied by the participants were simply coded (e.g., sun, etc.). Second, the coded metaphorical images (n=52) were scrutinized to choose a sample expression that represented each identified metaphorical image best. Third, 5 major conceptual categories were classified and all the metaphors were grouped around common themes. According to the results, totally 52 valid metaphorical images were identified and they are collected under 5 different conceptual categories