Recreational-practical program of emotional intelligence in pre-adolescents of “Babega” Rural Educational Center of the municipality of Silos: a peacebuilding strategy

Abstract

This article is based on an analytical paradigm and a mixed methodological approach in order to design a playful-practical emotional intelligence program for pre-adolescents of the C.E.R Centro Educativo Rural Bábega, in the municipality of Santo Domingo de Silos, Norte de Santander, as a peace-building strategy. For this purpose, we sought to determine the level of perception, facilitation, understanding and emotional regulation, based on execution tasks through the application of the Emotional Intelligence Ability Test at School (THInEmE) by Isabel María Merchán Romero, University of Extremadura Spain, 2017. Next, an emotional intelligence program is proposed in preadolescents of the Bábega Rural Educational Center as a strategy for Peace Building and, finally, it was sought to recognize the construction of Peace in the educational scenario from Emotional Intelligence.

The results of the research show that although the students strive to maintain an attitude that recognizes their own emotions and those of their external peers, there are still clear weaknesses in the way they perceive, facilitate and regulate these emotions for effective decision making or for the strengthening of personal self-esteem, which is why psycho-pedagogical intervention is necessary based on strategies that not only affect their emotional learning, but also the ways in which peace scenarios are built from the classroom.