Educação biocêntrica : o corazonar potencializando a inteligência afetiva nos adolescentes.

Abstract

Adolescence has been discussed for a long time by several authors that aim to comprehend how these youngsters behave and relate among themselves and with other people, considering that afflictions, matches and mismatches are felt and experienced in their maturing process, though not always they healthily experience this plurality of feelings. For this reason, this research intervention aimed to comprehend how Biocentric Education and Corazonar can help develop the affective intelligence in adolescents. This has been a qualitative study, with an intervention participant research as method, where culture circles were used, with the intent of building knowledge through experiences and reflexions on the dialogs built. Five meetings were held, with 10 adolescents with ages between 14 and 15 years old. The procedure of data reflection, considering these are sensitive and subjective aspects, was performed with the assumptions of Jung’s symbolic thinking (symbolic amplification). By the end of the research, it was possible to comprehend how Biocentric Education enables to produce a socio-emotional and affective learning, enhancing a corazonar of emotions and experiences lived by these adolescents facing their adversities, providing strengthening and a construction of meaning in their relationship with themselves and with others.