PEDAGOGY OF EMOTION

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the relevance of emotion pedagogy in the educational context, assessing how the management and understanding of emotions can optimise learning and encourage student participation in different contexts. A qualitative methodology was used, focusing on the literature review and the analysis of accounts of pedagogical practices that contemplated the management of emotions in the classroom. Through interviews with teachers and classroom observation, the advantages of working with emotions in the teaching-learning process were documented, with emphasis on the development of socioemotional competencies. The data show that the pedagogy of emotion developed focuses attention on the acquisition of emotional skills whose effects have a favourable impact on the level of motivation, school performance and harmonious coexistence at school. Based on these findings, this study argues that the pedagogy of emotion is an approach that makes it possible to achieve inclusive education and, at the same time, to provide students with the necessary emotional competences to face the social challenges they require in the current context.