Las metáforas emocionales de los estudiantes de educación primaria y educación infantil

This study analyzes the personal metaphors related to emotions of students in the first year of master degree studies from the Faculty of Education of Badajoz. The sample comes from students of primary teachers during the year 2010/2011 where he raised two open questions. In research conducted metaphors in the four categories of Leavy et al. (2007): transmissive/ behavioral, cognitive/constructivist, situated and self-referential. The results obtained indicate that the category with most general metaphors was the behaviourist/transmissive, followed by cognitive/constructivist and the self-referenced. However the most emotional metaphors fall into the self-referencial and cognitive/constructivist categories, followed by situated and behaviourist/ transmissive, although some