MUSEUM METAPHORS OF PRIMARY LEVEL 4TH GRADE STUDENTS

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The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of the students of the 4th grade primary school for the concept of museum. Participants of the study constitute 393 fourth - year students who were educated in public schools in the academic year of 2016-2017 and determined by sampling method from purposeful sampling techniques. In the study conducted to determine the museum metaphors of the students, phenomenology (phenomenology) pattern was used in the qualitative research methods and content analysis method was used for the analysis of the data. In the end, it was seen that students developed 55 metaphors about the concept of museum. Metaphors that students intensively used were as such: history, historical artifact, historic site. The metaphors of the students were grouped under five conceptual categories as a result of the analysis on the reasons. These categories include; Preservation and Retention, Education - Teaching, Spatial Perception, Object Perception and Other Dimensions. As a result of the student metaphors and categories, the museum was perceived by students as a place where historical points and some objects were gathered and stored, and students were perceived to develop a positive perception toward the museum.

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Museum , Non , School Learning , Primary school students , Metaphor.

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