Abstract

GONZALEZ PEREZ, Arely. Emotional Well-Being and the Teacher: A Creative Journal on Emotions. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.23, e022.  Epub Feb 14, 2022. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v12i23.1025.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the health measures taken by educational authorities to slow down the number of infections, including home schooling, one of the topics that was posicionad in the center of interest was that of emotions. In particular, when facing new conditions of life, work, and transmission of knowledge to students, teachers began to be more aware of their emotional state and the way it affects their professional and personal development. The present work aims to find out how a sample of teachers and students is experiencing this time of prolonged pandemic, analyze the main emotions they are experiencing and create support material for emotional recognition and management. This through action research. Among the results, it was found that the teaching union requires having tools that nurture it to face the challenges that lie ahead. It must be considered that virtuality is an area of opportunity to make knowledge reach more people, as happened with the product of this research, which ended with a master class for the 80 research subjects and has almost 300 visits on YouTube and with a creative journal to express emotions that was given to the participants.

Keywords : pedagogical well-being; psychological well-being; emotions.