For classroom research: an exercise with metaphors

Abstract

Within the framework of the pedagogical paradigm change driven by Learning and Knowledge Technologies, by the dynamic of the current society and the needs of the cyber-student, this article proposes a feasible investigative exercise that can be carried out in a university classroom. Specifically, it simulates a study of the metaphors activated by women at the time of the beginning of the Hispanic population. To achieve the objective, we work with the Project-Based Learning strategy and with epistles from the 16th century compiled by Enrique Otte in his book Cartas privadas de emigrantes a Indias, 1540-1616.