Abstract:
Science and technology course is one of the leading course in which students are thought abilities to obtain knowledge rather than transfer knowledge directly. Teachers guide students to obtain these abilities. So it is important to define field and job perception of future science and technology teachers. Metaphors are one of the tools that can be used for this. Besides it is regarded as a symbolic language tool that two idea or concept associated for comparison in deep meaning metaphor presents more of this. The aim of this research is to find prospective science and technology teacher's perception related to science and technology teacher concepts through metaphor. In the research it is used phenomenology one of the quality research features. Research is conducted by 90 prospective teachers who go on their teaching in University of Dokuz Eylul Buca Education Faculty in the spring semester of 2009-2010 academic year. The prospective teachers are asked an open ended question related to science and technology teacher. The result of the research we obtain data about perception of prospective teachers related to and science and technology It is tried to understand point of view of teacher of the future related to their own job.
