A coeducación das emocións como estratexia chave para a promoción da convivencia positiva: a experiencia “EmocionadXs” do IES “Xulián Magariños” (Negreira)

Abstract

“EmocionadXs” names an education-emotion coeducation project for compulsory secondary education students (ESO, in its acronym in Galician), developed during three academic years in the Institute “Xulián Magariños” of Negreira, a small semi-rural town in the province of A Coruña.

This article presents some of the results of this project, in order to highlight the effects of the education of the emotions in the relations of coexistence in the center. Thus, based on the testimonies of key teaching staff, the study shows the need and relevance of designing and implementing socioeducational actions focused on the promotion of healthy emotional development in students.

Research confirms that the education of emotions contributes to create diverse opportunities for shared learning among teenagers, through motivating, exciting and meaningful experiences; implying people, in an explicit way, in their own development process, both personal and group.

In this sense, for the creation of contexts of positive coexistence, it seems essential to keep in mind the emotional and social dimension of the individual, but also of the groups.

As Paulo Freire affirmed "Education doesn´t change the world, it changes people who are going to change the world". For this reason, social transformation, towards a culture of peace, depends to a great extent on learning as an emotional and social subject, in interaction with other people and their emotionalities; and therefore, to learn as a thinking and feeling individual, responsible for his own life and the life in community.

“EmocionadXs” (Permuy, 2013) is an experience designed and implemented since the Permanent Seminar of Emotionality, Gender and Human Development (EXDEHU, in its acronym in Galician), of the Institute of Sciences of the Education of the University of Santiago de Compostela.