La empatía como herramienta de aprendizajeel aprendizaje entre personas desde la emoción

Resumen

This article tries to value learning based on emotions and empathy as a tool or methodology. Measuring emotions is not an easy task. Even if we can measure the light through luxometers and sounds through the sound level meters, we are not able to quantify what emotions we experience listening to music, the sound of a river or the light of a sunset. Even if we can not measure them, we can not doubt of their importance and value for a meaningful learning They produce an imprint that remains in the lives of people, and can even change the perception we have of the environment, our life trajectory and also the professional one. Although university learning and acquisition of knowledge is measured through continuous, mixed or final examinations, it is not questioned that feeling is a powerful part of learning. Emotional intelligence has been out of the classroom for a long time, but from its definition, it is necessary to integrate and value it at all educational levels, including the university level. Bringing feelings and emotions to the acquisition of soft and curricular skills, is one of the objectives of Gaztenpatia program at the UPV / EHU, in which the School of Architecture takes part from its beginning, now fulfilling its third edition with more and more participants, projects and demand. It is a program of voluntary and / or curricular practices in which students from different degrees participate in development cooperation projects of Euskal Fondoa in communities of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The work groups are interdisciplinary and the work, developed in contexts totally unrelated to their own, allows an approach to the problems raised from the emotion and empathy, putting into practice and developing interpersonal skills that are usually not worked in the classroom and that, undoubtedly, are the basis of a significant learning of architecture.