Abstract

ALARCON HERNANDEZ, Paola  and  HERNANDEZ, Patricia C.. Metaphoric Representations of the In-service and Pre-service Teacher. A Comparative Study of the Results in Chile and Argentina. Folios [online]. 2019, n.50, pp.3-21. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.50-8476.

In this qualitative study, conceptual metaphor is the theoretical and methodological framework used to analyze the representations of the in-service teachers and a group of pre-service teachers from the city of Buenos Aires. The paper summarizes the conclusions of a similar study (Alarcón, 2015) on pre-service teachers from a Chilean university. In order to collect metaphors, the questionnaire used in the study mentioned above was adapted and the same procedure was used. In order to analyze the metaphors thus obtained, the categories suggested by Saban (2004) and Alarcón (2015) were taken into consideration, i.e. conceptual metaphors (i) centered on teaching, (ii) centered on learning, (iii) linked to the social value of the teacher, and (iv) representative of the pre-service teacher. The qualitative analysis of the results allowed not only to characterize the conceptual metaphors underlying the Argentinean respondents conception, but also to make visible the convergence and divergence between the responses obtained and those provided by Chilean students.

Keywords : conceptual metaphor; pre-service teachers; qualitative analysis.

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