Examination of Prospective Teachers’ Perceptions of Homeland: A Phenomenological Study

Yavuz DEĞİRMENCİ

doi:https://doi.org/10.33403/rigeo.514318

Article Details

Examination of Prospective Teachers’ Perceptions of Homeland: A Phenomenological Study

Authors:

Yavuz DEĞİRMENCİ

Publisher:

Eyüp ARTVİNLİ

Main Topics:

Sociology and anthropology

Journal:

Review of International Geographical Education Online 2019 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.346-360

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000831694

Frequency:

Tri-annual

eISSN:

2146-0353

pISSN:

2146-0353

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33403/rigeo.514318

Abstract:

 



Homeland
can be described as the territory in which people who are bound to each other
with several ties and have common values. Homeland is one of the most valuable
heritages which has been left to us from former generations, and will be left
to future generations. There are great responsibilities on us, families,
education and especially our teachers as an important element of education to
protect and transfer it to future generations. The reason is that patriotism
begins in the family and continues in educational environments. An examination
of the renewed primary and secondary education programs in terms of general
objectives and contents revealed that there is a conscious effort for children
to gain such values as consciousness of and love for the homeland, and
patriotism in especially social sciences and geography classes. Therefore,
perceptions of homeland of prospective teachers who will raise future
generations are important. The purpose of this research is to study perceptions
of prospective teachers regarding the concept of homeland. The population of
the study consists of 157 prospective classroom teachers, 98 of whom are
females and 59 males, who were being educated in three different departments
(social studies, Turkish and classroom teaching) in the Fall semester of
2017-2018 Academic Year. Phenomenology, a qualitative research method, has been
employed in the research. The views and thoughts of the target population
regarding the concept of active citizenship have been collected by use of an
interview form which consists of a single sentence. The data collected were
analyzed by the technique of content analysis. According to the findings of the
research, the prospective social studies teachers came up with 28, prospective
classroom teachers came up with 27 and prospective Turkish teachers came up
with 28 valid metaphors about the concept of homeland, which makes a total of
83 different metaphors. In addition, the participants’ most preferred metaphors
about the concept were the metaphors of mother, home, family, house and earth. 




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Article Details

Examination of Prospective Teachers’ Perceptions of Homeland: A Phenomenological Study

Authors: Yavuz DEĞİRMENCİ

Publisher: Eyüp ARTVİNLİ

Main Topics: Sociology and anthropology

Journal: Review of International Geographical Education Online 2019 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.346-360

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 8/2019

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000831694

Frequency: Tri-annual

eISSN: 2146-0353

pISSN: 2146-0353

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33403/rigeo.514318

Issues

Authors:

Yavuz DEĞİRMENCİ

Publisher:

Eyüp ARTVİNLİ

Main Topics:

Sociology and anthropology

Journal:

Review of International Geographical Education Online 2019 Vol.9 Issue 2, pp.346-360

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

8/2019

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000831694

Frequency:

Tri-annual

eISSN:

2146-0353

pISSN:

2146-0353

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33403/rigeo.514318