TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding emotions in educational dialogues on civic and social issues
T2 - a psychotherapeutic approach
AU - Firer, Efrat
AU - Slakmon, Benzi
AU - Schwarz, Baruch B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida 2023.
PY - 2024/6
Y1 - 2024/6
N2 - The aim of this research is to explore emotional processes occurring during educational dialogues on civic and social issues (EDCSI) by asking what factors arouse emotions in EDCSI, how do these factors interact, how do they affect the participants, and how this effect can be explained from the perspective of group therapy. EDCSI involves a complex set of emotions at the individual, inter-personal, and group levels that cannot only be explained by already existing frameworks used in educational research. Thirty-three students discussed civic and social issues using digital media in two different settings: a three-day learning seminar for secondary school students and an undergraduate university course. Using a cued retrospective reporting protocol, the students were interviewed and asked to refer to their overall experience in the discussions and to emotional moments they experienced. The analysis of the interviews shows that factors that arouse emotions pertain to the personal, interpersonal, and group dimensions, and often interact with each other. The emotional processes described by the participants were consistent with factors identified in the field of group psychotherapy such as instillation of hope, universality, imitative behaviors, and interpersonal learning. We therefore claim that research about emotional processes in group therapy may contribute to understanding the multi-level emotional processes occurring in EDCSI and that psychotherapy practices may inspire educators in designing and facilitating EDCSI.
AB - The aim of this research is to explore emotional processes occurring during educational dialogues on civic and social issues (EDCSI) by asking what factors arouse emotions in EDCSI, how do these factors interact, how do they affect the participants, and how this effect can be explained from the perspective of group therapy. EDCSI involves a complex set of emotions at the individual, inter-personal, and group levels that cannot only be explained by already existing frameworks used in educational research. Thirty-three students discussed civic and social issues using digital media in two different settings: a three-day learning seminar for secondary school students and an undergraduate university course. Using a cued retrospective reporting protocol, the students were interviewed and asked to refer to their overall experience in the discussions and to emotional moments they experienced. The analysis of the interviews shows that factors that arouse emotions pertain to the personal, interpersonal, and group dimensions, and often interact with each other. The emotional processes described by the participants were consistent with factors identified in the field of group psychotherapy such as instillation of hope, universality, imitative behaviors, and interpersonal learning. We therefore claim that research about emotional processes in group therapy may contribute to understanding the multi-level emotional processes occurring in EDCSI and that psychotherapy practices may inspire educators in designing and facilitating EDCSI.
KW - CSCL
KW - Deliberation
KW - Educational-dialogues
KW - Emotions
KW - Groups
KW - Therapy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85162256963&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-023-00710-8
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-023-00710-8
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0256-2928
VL - 39
SP - 671
EP - 688
JO - European Journal of Psychology of Education
JF - European Journal of Psychology of Education
IS - 2
ER -