Journal of E ducation and Human Development December 2015, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 195-201 ISSN: 2334-296X (Print), 2334-2978 (Online) Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. Published by American Research Institute for Policy Development DOI: 10.15640/jehd.v4n4a23 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15640/jehd.v4n4a23 A Metaphorical Study about Transported E ducation in Turkey Dr. İhsan Topçu 1 , Dr. Celal Teyyar Uğrlu 2 , Dr. Soner Doğan 3 & Cahit Kavtelek 4 Abstract This is a quantitative designed phenomenological research to investigate the perceptions of students, parents and teachers on transported education. It consists of the metaphors created by the participants from a selected school that supplies such an educational service in an urban area. Critical sampling, one of the purposeful sampling methods, was used in the study. Participants were chosen from a high school in Şebinkarahisar town of the Giresun Province in 2012-2013 Academic Year. The school was also serving transported education to the rural area around the town. Population of the study were 15 teachers, 15 students and 15 parents from the school. In the study, an open ended phrase; “Transported education is like … … … , because … … …… ”, was used as data collection tool. Data was analyzed via content analyses technique. Findings show that students created 13 different metaphors, teachers have produced 15 different metaphors and parents have expressed 12 different metaphors. Taking into consideration, the common features of those metaphors, they were grouped into two different conceptual categories. Results revealed that participants produced both positive and negative metaphors, yet teachers had more negative metaphors compared to the other two study groups. Keywords: Transported education, student transfer, metaphor, education in rural area 1. Introduction E ducation has an important place in one’s lifetime. Human beings gain improvement in both individual and social life with education. Although every society gives importance to education, the main aims are to increase the quality of the education, to diversify the educational activities and to allow all individuals access to education (Töremen,2011). E ducation is accepted as a consumption commodity because people have a demand for knowledge. E ducation provides opportunities to the individual to improve himself, widen his horizons and to increase his qualifications (Çalık, 2003). E ducational institutions undertake the duty and responsibility of changing the behaviors of individuals at different levels such as primary schools, secondary schools or higher education institutions. Primary schools undertakes the main educational duty and responsibility in this process. In Turkey, primary schools are the educational institutions in which the schooling rate is the highest. E fforts to widen compulsory schooling within the Turkish educational system are continuously updated. The geographical conditions of Turkey and dispersed settlement areas in the regions have forced the government to adopt different primary schooling applications (Kılıç and Abay, 2009). In this way, all citizens are tried to be given the right to equally benefit from basic compulsory schooling and the governments carry out various applications and make necessary arrangements to realize this. In our country there have been various practices and applications in this respect. One of them is the transported education application ( Bilek and Kale, 2012 ). 1 Asst. Prof, Cumhuriyet University E ducation Faculty, Department of E ducational Sciences SIVAS TURKE Y. Contact: ihsantopcu@ hotmail.com 2 Asst. Prof, Cumhuriyet University E ducation Faculty, Department of E ducational Sciences SIVAS TURKE Y. 3 Asst. Prof, Cumhuriyet University E ducation Faculty, Department of E ducational Sciences SIVAS TURKE Y. 4 Graduate Student , Cumhuriyet University E ducation Faculty, Department of E ducational Sciences SIVAS TURK E Y.