ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this study is to investigate pre-school teachers’ creativity perceptions through metaphors. This study is a pheno-menological study that is qualitative in nature. The participants were 250 pre-school teachers who worked in the central towns of Adana/Turkey. Data were collected through the Metaphor Questionnaire about the concept of creativity. The data were analyzed using qualitative analysis methods. Results showed that the teachers produced 78 metaphors about creativity. An analysis of the findings in terms of creativity concepts showed that the teachers tried to explain creativity through metaphors about freedom and imagination, which are necessary for creativity. The metaphors produced by the teachers about creativity perceptions were collected under 7 conceptual categories. An analysis of the metaphors used by the teachers, as well as the explanations they provided, indicated that the pre-school teachers did not perceive creativity necessarily including originality.

摘要

本研究的主要目的是通过隐喻调查学前教师的创造力感知。本研究是一项本质上定性的现象学研究。参与者是在阿达纳/土耳其中心城镇工作的 250 名学前教师。数据是通过关于创造力概念的隐喻问卷收集的。使用定性分析方法分析数据。结果表明，教师们产生了78个关于创造力的隐喻。对创造力概念方面的研究结果进行分析表明，教师试图通过关于创造力所必需的自由和想象力的隐喻来解释创造力。教师产生的关于创造力感知的隐喻被收集在7个概念类别下。分析教师使用的隐喻，