The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies Year: 15 - Number: 92, p. 441-460, Winter 2022 Examination of Metaphorical Environment Perceptions of Primary School Fourth Grade Gifted Students* Prof. Dr. Salih Ceylan ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7196-7807 Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Faculty of Education, Department of Primary School Education, Burdur – TÜRKİYE Dr. Ramazan Peker ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6553-305X Teacher / Ministry of National Education, Kocaeli – TÜRKİYE Dr. Tuğba Tetik ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5060-043X Teacher / Ministry of National Education, Burdur – TÜRKİYE Artcile History Abstract Submitted: 06.09.2021 Accepted: 08.12.2022 Published Online: 31.12.2022 In this study, it was aimed to examining the metaphorical environment perceptions of primary school fourth grade gifted students. The study group of this research designed as a sequential transformative design model consisted of 281 fourth-grade gifted students, including 151 boys and 130 girls, and 72 of them are nine years old and 202 are ten years old, that were receiving education in eight different Science and Arts Centers during the first term of the 2021-2022 school year. The qualitative data obtained in the research were evaluated with descriptive analysis and content analysis, and the quantitative data were evaluated with the Chi-Square test of independence. The coder reliability of the study was evaluated Kappa Coefficient and coder reliability formula. According to the results, the coder reliabilityof the data was found acceptable and high in both statistics. Gifted students produced 84 valid and different metaphors about the environment. These metaphors were examined with respect to their common traits and categorized under 6 categories. It was seen that gifted students expressed the environment "Living", "Life", "Home" and "Human" metaphors and that their environment perceptions were related to a fine world. Students "Environment" concept substantially as "the Environment as an Expression of Vitality" and least as "the Environment as Degraded- Polluted Environment’’ and ‘’ the Environment as a Game-Entertainment’’. And it has been revealed that metaphorical environment perceptions of gifted students do not significantly in terms of gender, age, factors, have a school trip to nature and have a domestic animal. . Keywords Environment Environment Perception Primary School Students Gifted Students Metaphor Research Article * This article was checked by Intihal.net. This article is under the Creative Commons license. Ethics committee approval was received for this article from Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/JASSS.64462 Reference Information / Atıf Bilgisi Ceylan, S.; Peker, R. and Tetik, T. (2022). Examination of Metaphorical Environment Perceptions of Primary School Fourth Grade Gifted Students. Jass Studies-The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies, 15(92), 441-460.