Educational administration is described as both a scientific and a practical field. When the scientific functions of educational administration are evaluated, these functions are “(1) producing knowledge, (2) disseminating knowledge, (3) education-training and (4) service to society”. There are four consecutive steps (description, explanation, prediction and control) of producing knowledge. The aim of control is to reach practical inferences from scientific knowledge. Using scientific knowledge is related to the perceptions about the research. The aim of this study was to reveal the perceptions of primary school principals and vice-principals about educational administration research through metaphors. One of the sub-aims of the research was deciding the most frequently used metaphors to conceptualize educational administration research by primary school principals and vice-principals and the reasons to choose these metaphors. The other one was determining how conceptual categories distribute according to tasks and education level. This research was designed as a phenomenological study which is one of the qualitative research methods. The study group of this research consists of 128 primary school principals and vice-principals who work in center of Niğde from November 2021 to April 2022. In this research, a form with two parts used as the data collection tool. The first part consists of demographic knowledge, and in second part there were “Educational administration researches are like…Because…” sentence and participants completed it. Data were analyzed according to stages suggested by Saban (2008). These stages were “the coding and eliminating stage, sample metaphor compilation stage, categorizing stage, validity and reliability stage”. Participants resembled education administration researches to “guide, a useful thing, provider of development, a problem identification tool, other, a valuable thing, a vital need, a futile effort” in order. When these categories are investigated it can be said: participants have positive attitudes toward educational administration research. Also it can be said; both principals and vice-principals; the participants who attended and didn’t attend to graduate school used metaphors related with “guide and a useful thing” from categories. In this study supporting positive perception of the principals and vice-principals with the politics is suggested to established wider theory-practice relevance.