Perceptions of “Book” Concepts on Teacher Candidates of Turkish and Social Sciences Education

The purpose of this study is to determine the perceptions of teacher candidates of Turkish and Social Sciences Education on the concept of "book" through metaphors. The study group consists of 330 students who study in the first and last classes of Turkish and Social Sciences Education departments in the second semester of 2016-2017 academic year. The data were obtained through the forms in which the personal information was included in the first part and the completed form was given in the second part "book for me ... because ...". The 330 data obtained were analyzed by content analysis technique via Nvivo 11 PLUS program and 9 metaphors determined to be weak structure were extracted without working. The remaining 321 metaphors were compiled to form a metaphor list, grouped by various conceptual themes, and 13 conceptual categories were created. According to the metaphor numbers in these 13 conceptual categories; journey (111), source of information and entertainment (65), friend (44), treasure (22), awareness (22), nature (17), object (11), requirement (11), life (7), insignificant (4), feeling (3), purpose (2) and miracle (2)