Ven y te Cuento como me Siento: Desarrollo de Inteligencia Emocional mediante Comunidades de Dialogo

Abstract

The following research is based on the development of Emotional Intelligence using the Dialogue Communities as strategy in 3rd grade children of the San José Educational Institution in Monteria, Córdoba. The investigation used a qualitative research approach and a socio – critical research paradigm, a critical – reflective method and action research. The main objective of the proposal was the development of emotional intelligence in 3rd grade children, to favor the processes of integral formation of the students by providing tools for communication of emotions and self – regulation of these by developing emotional competencies. In the first phase of the research, a diagnostic workshop was used as an instrument, consisting of an interview and two didactic activities that allowed us to discover how children identified emotions and how handle them in different situation in their lives. For the intervention phase, four dialogue communities were proposed as mediating resource, a space for reflection and the way of reacting to them and consequence after that, was a new way to facing each emotion. The proposal presented was evaluated through the application of an initial interview and the collection of the testimonies of the subject of the research, with an open dialogue between the teacher and the students with the intention of receive information and data allow specifying the incidence of the pedagogical strategy about the children´s emotional intelligence and their learning needs.