Eric.ed.gov – Metaphor Perceptions of Pre-Service Teachers towards Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Preschool Education
Læst 9 gange eric.ed.gov har udgivet: The aim of this study was to identify the thoughts of pre-service teachers, who play an important role in the early preschool experience of children in mathematics, towards the concepts of mathematics and education of mathematics with the help of metaphors. The study group of the research consists of a total of 227 pre-service teachers at the Department of Preschool Education, Faculty of Education, Cukurova University in the 2013-2014 academic years. The data of the study were collected by asking pre-service teachers to complete some sentences like “do you think, education of math is like …. in the preschool education; because Math is like …; because….”. The responses obtained from pre-service teachers were categorized by content analysis. As a result of the study, seven categories created by… Continue Reading