The role of Philosophy in Education of the Emotions

Without an understanding of ideals, such as truth,,justice,,beauty, and goodness, and the guiding role they play in philosophical inquiry, our emotions (as judgments) tend to be immature, crude, and sometimes destructive. John Dewey

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Conclusion
There is a continuum between thinking, emotions, and ideals Our emotions are judgments, appraisals of a situation They themselves can be appraised and corrected. The concept formation, reasoning skills and value inquiry of philosophy are essential to task What I value may or may not be valuable, but either way, what I care about plays an important role in the emotions I choose to manifest.
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Pensamiento Complejo O Pensamiento de Orden Superior

Pensamien to Crtico

Pensamiento Creativo

Pensamien to Valorativo Caring Thinking

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The role of Philosophy in Education of the Emotions

Without an understanding of ideals, such as truth,,justice,,beauty, and goodness, and the guiding role they play in philosophical inquiry, our emotions (as judgments) tend to be immature, crude, and sometimes destructive. John Dewey

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Metforas del aprendizaje

Mayer (2002)

Corrientes psicolgicas

Neuropsicolo ga Bases biolgicas de la conducta Cerebro Amgdala

Humanismo Cognitiva Maslow/ Rogers

Eclctico Humanista Cognitiva Ann Sharp Matthew Lipman Creencias Proceso Sistema (Desarrollo) Crtico Creativo Valorativo (Desarrollo y prctica FpN)

Emocin

Pirmide de las necesidades

Creencias Proceso Sistema (Desarrollo) Crtico Creativo

Pensamiento En los

Altruista hemisferios I y Desarrollo D de la Lbulos personalidad Tlamo

Emociones
Identificar la emocin

Reconocer el origen de esa emocin Por

qu siento esto? O Por qu me siento as?

Esa razn es vlida? Es razonable mi enojo,

mis celos?
Es justificable mi emocin? Aprender a transformar la emocin de
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La emocin afecta a nuestro pensamiento

y Nuestro emociones pensamiento afecta a nuestras

Hasta qu punto voy a permitir que mi emocin (celos/enojo) determine mis acciones o mi forma de ver al mundo?
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What is a judgment?
A judgment is a determination of thinking, making,

action or emotion. Emotions are judgments because they are appraisals. Judgments are likely to be better if they are products of skillfully performed thinking, dialogue and communal inquiry. By thinking I mean critical, creative and caring thinking By inquiry I mean self-critical practice in a communal setting By dialogue, I mean communication of the self with others focused on trying to achieve mutual understanding

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What is a judgment?
To make a judgments is to form an opinion, an

estimate or a conclusion It includes such things as making decisions, forming a concept or expressing an emotion. Aristotle tells us that those who practice good judgments are the persons that we think of as wise.

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What is the difference between judgment and good judgment?

Sound reasoning

Distinguishing similarities and differences

A sense of perspective and proportion A sensitivity to context

Consciousness of criteria
Disposition to wonder, inquire, question Self-correction.

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What is a good judgment ?

Ability to go beyond the rules.
Ability to detect the important features of a

situation Ability to express the appropriate emotion at the right time. If I am full of resentment or anger, my judgment making often is askew.

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Good Judgment
Since emotions are appraisals of a situation, they

are judgments. Emotions of empathy, compassion, doubt, benevolence, guilt, shame, disgust, anger, contempt, resentment, arrogance and confidence play a role in how we read or appraise a situation. .

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Anger
A moral emotion in which one adopts a particular

stance in the world. Anger has a powerful effects on how child views he world Children need to learn when and how to express it, in the right degree and context, with the right person and at the right time.

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Anger
Child needs first to identity the emotion Ferret out the underlying assumptions of belief of

the anger Are the beliefs valid? Does the child have good reason to be angry? If not, can she let the anger go? Can she transform it into something constructive?

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Jealousy
Complex emotion Often reveals low self esteem coupled with strong

feelings of possessiveness Often involves anger and resentment Children must come to realize that underlying assumptions of their jealousy, their attachments to feeling of loss Reasonable and unreasonable fears of losing something precious

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Jealousy
Important emotion for children

Helps them to recognize their interdependence

with others Their vulnerability as humans Their need for community Their need for love

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Jealousy
Some think jealousy is not something that can be

overcome Others, like Buddhists, disagree. Even if we all must live with jealousy, children can still learn to ask themselves on what terms they want to live with it? Is there reasonable and unreasonable jealousy? To what extent will I let it determine the way I look at the world? How is it attached to my concept of self and other? How is it attached to what I think of as just and good?

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Conclusion
I have made a list of emotions which I think

would be helpful for children to be able to identify and learn how to justify Teachers and students could use them to construct a deck of cards, with one emotion on a card These cards could be used to give children practice in manifesting the various emotions in drama, mime, drawing, storytelling, essay writing, musical expression, body language, facial expression
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Conclusion
The more practice students have in

expressing emotions in various ways, the better able they are to identify these emotions in themselves and to read them in others. Once identified, they are on their way to appraising the emotion as appropriate, reasonable and justified. However, as the Beatles used to sing, children need the help of their friends to engage in this work? When it comes to emotions, it is the other who can keep us honest with ourselves.
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Emotions as judgments

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