Las emociones en las metáforas personales de los profesores en formación en la especialidad de Tecnología de Secundaria

Abstract

In this study the personal and emotional metaphors for teacher and student learning Technology a sample of students of the Master of Secondary teacher training at the University of Extremadura (Spain) are analyzed. The method of data collection was an open questionnaire where they had to describe their metaphors and make a drawing of them. In research conducted adapt the four categories of Leavy et al. (2007): Behavioral-transmissive, cognitive-constructivist, situated and self-referential. The results indicate that in general metaphors about the role of the teacher, as many are in the transmissive behavioral category followed by cognitive / constructivist. With regard to student learning emphasizes the category of cognitive-constructivist metaphors. There is some consistency between related teacher and learning but they have more negative metaphors. In the emotional metaphors both the role of teacher and student learning, include cognitive-constructivist metaphors followed by behaviorists, but they reflect more negative emotions. They have expressed basic and social, positive, negative and neutral emotions.