Author/Authors :
YÜKSEL, Müge Yukay Marmara Üniversitesi - Atatürk Eğitim Fakültesi - Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümü, Rehberlik Psikolojik Danşmanlık Anabilim Dalı, Turkey , KURT, Bilge , GÜLSU, Nebahat , AKDAĞ, Ceren , AYDIN, Fatma , ERDOĞAN, Fatih
Abstract :
The present study is a qualitative study investigating the perceptions of 60-84-month-old first grade students who have difficulty in adapting to the school, related to the concept of school by means of the picture they draw. The pictures collected from the children were analyzed though the content analysis method which is one of the qualitative research methods. Children enrolled at five primary schools affiliated to the Ministry of Education in Istanbul in the 2014-2015 academic year took part in this research study. The total number of children who had difficulty in starting and adapting to the school were 40, 23 of whom were male while the remaining 17 were female. In the study, it was found that children having scolionophobia mostly used human drawings (class mates, security personnels, himself/herself, school mates, teachers, school counselor, cousin, human, uncle, siblings, mother, father, the man who is selling balloons, sister, brother) as symbols in their pictures related to the school. At the second place they used school building and schoolyard (school, school roof, school gate, flag, stone, lines on the school ground, school garden wall, ladders) and at the third place nature and nature related symbols (cloud, sun, sky, rainbow, umbrella, moon, rainy weather, rain, tree, flowers, star) in their pictures related to the school. In line with this finding, it could be stated that while children think about the concept of school, objects and events they encounter on the way to school come to their minds. They preferred to use mostly blue, yellow and green in their drawings.
