This study aims to present pre-service teachers' perceptions of " administration " and " school principal " reflected through metaphors; a purpose based on the fact that although they are trained in educational administration with only one course at university, pre-service teachers who are trained in the faculties of education constitute the group with the highest potential for becoming educational administrators in Turkish education system. The study group is the 4th grade (senior) university students who were chosen by means of criterion sampling method and who study at Preschool Menderes University. The criteria were the students' year of education and the course of Turkish Education System and School Management they take during their higher education. In this study which is based on phenomenology research design, a written form was used as the data collection tool aiming the perception of pre-service students for administration and school principal through metaphors. After the content analysis of the data gathered through written forms, it has been found out that pre-service students have mostly positive perceptions of administration and school principal concepts and administration is perceived to a more authoritarian structure while school principal and administration are considered equal in terms of responsibility.

Expectations of school administration changed dramatically over the course of the 20th century. Today, the roles and responsibilities of school administrators must be re-defined for success in the 21st century. The current research aimed at revealing the perception of school leadership by school administrators who were expected to cope with problems and enable students to succeed in the U.S. and Turkey. Comparative case study design was used to analyze and compare the U.S. and Turkey school administrators’ perceptions of school leadership through metaphors. The study sample consisted of 47 school administrators employed in K-12 schools in Turkey and the U.S. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview form. Data obtained were analyzed through content analysis. As a result, 47 participants defined school administration through 43 different metaphors. Participants used 23 positive, 13 negative, and 11 neutral metaphors to define school administration. Within these three c...

Expectations of school administration changed dramatically over the course of the 20th century. Today, the roles and responsibilities of school administrators must be re-defined for suc-cess in the 21st century. The current research aims at revealing the perception of school leadership by school administrators who are expected to cope with problems and enable students to succeed in the U.S. and Turkey. Comparative case study design was used to analyze and compare the U.S. and Turkey school administrators’ perceptions of school leadership through metaphors. The study sample consisted of 47 school administrators employed in K-12 schools in Turkey and the U.S. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview form. Data obtained were analyzed through content analysis. As a result, 47 participants defined school administration through 43 different metaphors. Participants used 23 positive, 13 negative, and 11 neutral metaphors to de-fine school administration. Within these three categories, five themes emerged: porter (13 meta-phors), firefighter (11 metaphors), father (10 metaphors), captain (7 metaphors), and maestro (6 metaphors). Although participants from two countries used mostly different metaphors, school administration is perceived similarly in Turkey and the US. This shows that in both countries, school administrators take on similar responsibilities and roles. The most distinct difference be-tween the school administrators in the two countries is that school administrators from Turkey more unfavorably approach the job they take on, while school administrators from the U.S. define their job as being more complicated. Keywords: school administration, principals, metaphors

In order for the educational activities to be efficient and productive, it is essential to determine the perceptions of students towards the elements of the school system, and to manage these activities in accordance with their perceptions. These perceptions should not only be restricted to specific grades. However, the number of researches analyzing the concepts of teacher and school director, and more than one grades together has been limited. So, The purpose of this research was to reveal the perceptions of middle school students related to the concepts of “teacher” and “school director” through metaphors. This research was designed qualitatively, and phenomenology research model was used. In this research, the phenomenon that was focused during the research process was determined as how secondary education students conceptualized their thoughts on their teachers and schools directors through metaphors. When the results were evaluated as a whole, it was noticed that students’ per...

It is necessary to know how the members of a school perceive their school management to investigate how they are related to their organizations. In this case, we can refer to metaphors, which are excellent tools for people to express their subconscious thoughts and perceptions about their organizations. On the other hand, metaphors help us to understand the estimations of school management by the members of school organizations. In the literature review, no study could be found about perceptions of teachers, principals and also staff on school management. So, it can be said that conducting this research will fill this gap in the literature. The aim of this study is to examine metaphorical perceptions of teachers, principals and staff on school management. According to the findings; 45 metaphors by female participants, 20 metaphors by male participants, 50 metaphors by teachers, 9 metaphors by principals and 6 metaphors by staff, 42 metaphors by participants whose seniority in schoo...

The basic purpose of this research was to reveal the perceptions of secondary education students related to the concepts of " teacher " and " school director " through metaphors. This research was designed qualitatively, and phenomenology research model was used. In this research, the phenomenon that was focused during the research process was determined as how secondary education students conceptualized their thoughts on their teachers and schools directors through metaphors. Most of the metaphors 5 th grade students had on the concept of " teacher " were among the category of teacher as the source of love, and most of the metaphors 6 th grade students had on the concept of " teacher " were among the category of teacher as the source of love, and most of the metaphors 7 th grade students had on the concept of " teacher " were among the category of teacher as the source of information, and finally most of the metaphors 8 th grade students had on the concept of " teacher " were among the category of teacher as the source of information. Similarly, most of the metaphors 5 th grade students had

The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions of students and teachers about learning, and teaching concepts. Therefore, metaphorical perceptions of students about being a student and learning, and metaphorical perceptions of teachers about being a teacher and teaching were examined. The phenomenology approach was chosen as a research model. The study group consists of 8 8 th grade students and their teachers (8 branch teachers of those classes) from a secondary school in Kocaeli in the 2014-2015 educational year. Research data was collected through semi-structured forms developed by the researchers.The data were analyzed through content analysis. The results indicated that students' perceptions of being a student are categorized as 'effort and struggle', 'improvement and growth', 'achieving a goal', 'versa-tility', and 'being forced'. Nine categories related to the metaphors about learning in their classroom were revealed. Teachers developed metaphors categorized as 'effort and struggle', 'improvement', and 'leading'.

The goal of this research is to determine pre-school administrators' perception about the pre-school teacher and children. In this regard, we tried to answer the following questions: What metaphors do the pre-school administrators have about pre-school teachers and children in general? Under which conceptual categories can we group the metaphors of pre-school administrators' about pre-school teachers and children? Research design was arranged in the form of case science. For data analysis the "content analysis" technique was used. The study group is composed of the school administrators working in the province of Konya in the 2012-2013 academic year. For selecting the study group, criterion sampling, which is a purposive sampling method, was used. At this point, the presence of at least one pre-school class and pree-school teacher in the school where the administrator works, was determined as a criterion. Then 130 school administrators were included in the study gr...