The metaphors that secondary school students created for `physical education`

Authors : Gorkem SOFI, Oguzhan YONCALIK

Pages : 96-104

Doi:10.15314/tjse.24725

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Publication Date : 2015-05-15

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The purpose of this study is to present secondary school students` emotions and thoughts about physical education class through their metaphors. The participants of this study consist of 482 students. A paper including the sentence ` Physical Education is like insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(a/an);………because………` was used to collect the data. The participants were asked to complete this sentence and the metaphors that they created were analyzed in five steps: naming the data, classifying the data, categorizing the data, testing the validity and reliability, and computerizing the data, respectively. As a result, the 6th grade secondary school students created 60, the 7th grade students 61 and the 8th grade students 79 different metaphors towards the concept of `Physical Education`.
Keywords : Metaphor, physical education, student