Pre-service mathematics teachers' metaphors about mathematics teacher concept

In recent years, metaphors became the subject and center of the increasing interests in educational sciences, including the mathematics education. According to this interest, pre-service mathematics teachers' views about their own professional area are important to reveal. In this study, the purpose is to determine metaphorical thoughts of pre-service mathematics teachers about the mathematics. With the convenience sampling, 140 pre-service mathematics teachers participated to this study in department of secondary school mathematics education. Participants completed the question "Mathematics teacher is like ... , because ... " by writing what mathematics teachers' means for the participants and why. With content analysis method, the data will be analyzed according to participants' responses to this prompt. 40 metaphors and 9 categories appeared about the concept of mathematics teachers. (c) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.