Metaphoric Perception on The Concept of Justice of Secondary School Students

The aim of the research is to determine the metaphors of the secondary school students about the concept of justice. The study group consists of 210 students studying in 5th 6th 7th 8th grades (in 2016-17 academic year) in public school in Bekilli which is a district in Denizli. In this research, in which phenomenology from the qualitative research design are used, the form prepared by researchers which is aimed to collect data, consists of filling the sentences like "justice is….. Because…" Legal permissions have been granted before the application. As a result of analysis, it was determined that secondary school students produced 76 metaphors about the concept of justice. The metaphors in the first three ranks are Libra (15%), Human (14%) and Equality (8%). Metaphors produced by students are grouped under 4 different conceptual categories in terms of their commonality. The explanations they used for the metaphors they created in concept categorization were taken into account. According to this findings; 36% of the students see the concept of the justice as equally, 30% of the students see as right and rule, 22% of the students as part of life and 12% of the students see as instrument of punishment. As a result of the research; it is advisable that with the help of social studies teachers, some education programs can be carried out t clarify the differences between the concept of justice and equality. On the other hand, doing activity research is advisable to ensure the better teaching of relevant concepts to the researchers. Multidimensional scaling technique may be recommended to determine the similarities and differences of the metaphors of the related concepts and its perceptual comprehension in the student’s mind