This study was carried out to explore the perceptions that academicians working at faculties of education in Turkey have regarding constructivist teacher. The participants of this phenomenological study included 323 academicians at 71 Faculties of Education in the spring of the 2013-2014 academic year. In the study, purposive sampling method was used among the sampling methods. Academicians completed the sentence Constructivist teacher is like ... because ... and the data gathered is analyzed with qualitative method. The results indicated that academicians produced 94 different metaphors regarding the constructivist teacher. These metaphors are categorized into 14 conceptual categories with regard to their common features. The metaphors indicated by all academicians and mostly-indicated ones are the following: Guide, master, maestro, director, architect, artist and democratic leader.
Key words: Constructivist Teacher, Metaphor, Faculty Members, Faculty of Education, Phenomenological Design.
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