The emotional education of teachers and its teaching work: a experience of Service-Learning at the university and its evaluation

• Main Author: Sarah Carrica-Ochoa
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de La Rioja 2017-02-01
• Series: Contextos Educativos: Revista de Educación
• Subjects: Aprendizaje-Servicio; desarrollo comunitario; inteligencia emocional; capacidades
• Online Access: https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/contextos/article/view/2995

University has the responsibility to train professionals, which means providing people with the necessary competences to face the world with an engagement to social justice. This paper presents a service-learning experience (SL) –and its evaluation– as a way of collaboration, service and improvement of community. Firstly, this work analyses SL and its theoretical context as a methodology in relation to community development and emotional intelligence. Secondly, a SL experience, conducted in grades of education at theUniversityofNavarra, is described. The objective has been to accompany the students in the analysis of the socio-educational action and capacitate them to intervene pedagogically in specific areas. Finally, the evaluation made through satisfaction questionnaires is presented; also a scale analysis of professional skills worked, made to that effect. The results show that methodologies such as SL allow achieving a high degree of satisfaction, engagement and motivation of students for the task required.