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When individuals wish to explain their expectations, wishes and thoughts in daily life clearly, or when they feel the need to express their wishes to the opposite party more effectively, they use words figuratively as well as making different resemblances between words (Korkmaz & Ünsal, 2016). These connections, which are created using similarities, enable the speaker to express himself/herself more effectively and use fewer words in an interesting way instead of having to explain a situation by using longer sentences and speech. In this context, individuals need metaphors that force them to think creatively, have dreams and add meanings to these aspects in their own lives as well as enabling individuals to be creative by preventing individual limitations (Tompkins and Lawley, 2002). A metaphor is a cognitive tool that the individual uses to understand and explain a high-level abstract, complex and conceptual phenomenon (Saban, Koçbeker & Saban, 2006) Metaphors make it easier to structure realities as they affect the way we understand events (Shaw & Mahlios, 2011). Metaphors offer a chance to provide rich and different point of views by focusing on individualization and enable us to express concepts indirectly to others through metaphors.Metaphors are used in research to identify individual perceptions (Ceylan, 2016). Perception is the process of getting to know surroundings and gaining awareness by interpreting and organizing knowledge (Lenka & Kant, 2012). Metaphors give individuals a change to observe their experiences and developmental process in a different way. In this context, how individuals perceive education, which is an …

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The Metaphors of Teacher Candidates on Distance Learning

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