This study analyzes cognitive and emotional empathy in students who started their training at the Education Science Faculty of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia. The sample was formed by 317 students enrolled in the study programs of Preschool, Plastic Arts, Natural Sciences, Physical Education, Philosophy, Computer Science, Foreign Languages, Mathematics, Music, Psychopedagogy, and Social Sciences. The Cognitive and Affective Empathy Scale (TECA for its Spanish initials) was used to collect data. Both the reliability of TECA and its construct validity were determined for this sample. Participants obtained better results in the cognitive dimension, the highest scores additionally corresponding to the emotional understanding scale. As far as gender is concerned, women outperformed men in their scores, especially in the two affective dimension scales. Differences also appeared according to age, scores growing as age increased. With regard to the training program in which students were enrolled, significant contrasts were identified in perspective adoption and empathic stress. Finally, a suggestion is made about the need for teacher training curricula to envisage empathy development for the purpose of strengthening the emotional skills of future lecturers.
RESUMEN:Una educación de calidad no solo implica la formulación coherente de planes de estudio, sino que debe contemplar otros aspectos en la formación del profesorado, como las competencias emocionales, siendo un proceso que redundará en el mismo sistema educativo. Es así como este artículo presenta el sentido y el significado que los maestros en formación de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación en la Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia le asignan a las emociones, como resultado de una investigación de tipo cualitativo que utilizó la metodología de estudio de caso y la técnica de entrevista a profundidad. Los participantes fueron nueve mujeres y ocho hombres de octavo o noveno semestre de 10 carreras universitarias de formación de maestros en distintas áreas. La investigación realizada puso de manifiesto que estos programas profesionales no integran de manera estructurada el estudio de las emociones y que el manejo emocional inadecuado puede tener un impacto negativo en el proceso educativo. De igual manera, resultó importante considerar la interdependencia entre lo intrapersonal e interpersonal y la relación entre los sentidos atribuidos a las emociones por parte de los participantes y los principales modelos de inteligencia emocional.PALABRAS CLAVE: Significado de las emociones, sentido atribuido a las emociones, Maestros en Formación. THE SENSE AND MEANING ATTRIBUTED TO EMOTIONS BY TEACHERS TRAINING AT PEDAGOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBIAABSTRACT: Quality education not only involves the formulation of curriculum but must consider other aspects into teacher training, such as emotional 77
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