Abstract
This study aimed to reveal the perceptions of prospective teachers about the concept of morality. The study group consisted of 141 prospective teachers from the Faculty of Education 1st year Art Teaching, Turkish Language Teaching, and Elementary Mathematics Teaching Departments at a university in the Middle Black Sea Region in the 2019-2020 academic year. A structured open_x0002_ended questionnaire consisting of items aiming to explore the perceptions of prospective teachers about the concept of morality was designed to collect data. The descriptive analysis method was used for data analysis. The results of the analysis showed that prospective teachers mostly perceived morality as a society-centered concept. While nature-centered perceptions, which indicate that morality has innate characteristics that include personal/internal processes of human beings, ranked second place, God-centered morality perception ranked third place. The metaphorical perceptions of prospective teachers were also greatly influenced by their society_x0002_centered understanding. In their metaphors about the concept of morality, prospective teachers mostly mentioned objects suitable for growing and shaping, such as flowers, trees, plants, saplings, and ivy. Moreover, it is possible to say that while prospective teachers were exemplifying moral behaviors, they focused more on external factors that are generally accepted in a society.