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EMOTIONS IN THE TEACHING PROCESS

Ladislav Bognar ; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek, Croatia
Snježana Dubovicki ; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

Research into educational processes reveals that the dominant emotions are boredom and fear and that negative emotions are prevalent, but also that the situation can be changed and a domination of positive emotions can be reached. Emotions are not only a part of educational climate, but the essential aspect of educational process. They form a part of both verbal and non-verbal communication, they are the subject of teaching in art education, but also in the overall human relationships. Emotions can be perceived as love towards one's own profession, towards the subject we work on, towards pupils or students, but also reversely – that of pupils and students towards teacher, subject or profession. Successful teaching is not only based on emotions, it is, as Pestalozzi put it, a unity of head, heart and hand.
This paper is the result of the project which has been carried out at three levels: (1) a study into theoretical level of emotions in teaching; (2) a seminar for teachers on the emotions in teaching with the application of a creative approach, collection of teachers' questions about the issues in practice and survey of emotional climate in this form of educational process; and (3) a report on the results of the project and solutions to the problems in practice. The aim of this research has been to apply the so-called lateral thinking onto the issue of emotions in teaching, by using this method in seminars for teachers, while approaching the issue in six different ways: as a process, information, emotionally, critically, optimistically, and creatively. In writing this paper we have also used this approach, which represents a shift from the positivist approach. The obtained results indicate that there is a problem of fierce and uncontrolled emotional reaction in practice, a problem of heavy emotions that are the result of child trauma and unpleasant emotions connected with grading and ranking. It turns out that teaching with the creative technique of ‘lateral thinking’ cause favourable emotional climate and the seminar participants felt pleasant emotions in 98% cases.

Keywords

emotional climate; creativity; lateral thinking

Hrčak ID:

79605

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/79605

Publication date:

20.3.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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