The Children's Perceptions of the Teacher: An Analysis of the Drawings Created by the Children

Year 2017, Volume: 18 Issue: 1, 281 - 291, 17.04.2017

Belgin Arslan Cansever

https://doi.org/10.17679/inuefd.306625

Cited By: 7

Abstract

This study aims to
determine how 66 and 68 months old children in the first grade of primary
school perceive their teachers by their drawings. The study was carried out
during the spring semester of 2015-2016 academic year. The research was based
on the phenomenological design, a qualitative research method. Cluster sampling
method, which is a randomization based sampling method, was used in this study.
The research sample was composed of 152 first graders (80 boys and 72 girls) in
Bornova, Izmir. The children were asked to draw the teacher in their
imagination during one class period (40 minutes) while their teachers were
present in the classroom. After the drawings completed, each student told the
researcher what they drew. Drawings obtained within the scope of the study have
been analyzed with Teacher Perception Coding List developed by Aykaç (2012).
Most of the children illustrated their teachers as female, cheerful, clean and
well-groomed. Besides, the children’s gender did not make any significant
differences in their teacher perception.

Keywords

children’s drawings, primary school, primary school teacher

The Children's Perceptions of the Teacher: An Analysis of the Drawings Created by the Children

Abstract

This study aims to determine
how 66 and 68 months old children in the first grade of primary school perceive
their teachers by their drawings. The study was carried out during the spring
semester of 2015-2016 academic year. The research was based on the
phenomenological design, a qualitative research method. Cluster sampling
method, which is a randomization based sampling method, was used in this study.
The research sample was composed of 152 first graders (80 boys and 72 girls) in
Bornova, Izmir. The children were asked to draw the teacher in their
imagination during one class period (40 minutes) while their teachers were
present in the classroom. After the drawings completed, each student told the
researcher what they drew. Drawings obtained within the scope of the study have
been analyzed with Teacher Perception Coding List developed by Aykaç (2012).
Most of the children illustrated their teachers as female, cheerful, clean and
well-groomed. Besides, the children’s gender did not make any significant
differences in their teacher perception.

Keywords

children’s drawings, primary school, primary school teacher

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