Requirements for achieving emotional education in teacher preparation institutions in Egypt
By / Dr. Fify Ahmed Tawfik[1]*
Summary
Despite the importance and impact of the emotional aspect on human personality, it has not received much attention by researchers. Furthermore, all the persons and bodies in charge of the educational process are only interested in the cognitive and physical aspects.
Research reported that (80%) of life success relies on the emotional aspects. Although interest in and fulfillment of the basic human needs are a must for biological survival, interest in the emotional needs is not less important to ensure emotional health.
However, many studies reported that the reality of emotional education in the educational institutions, including the university, is not a cause for optimism. In other words, the behaviors of many young men are increasingly far from the desired values, principles, and morals.
It is reported that the teacher can play a significant role in the development of the emotional aspects of students. However, studying and analyzing the programs, courses, and training programs of teacher preparation in the preparation institutions suggest that:
- Preparing the items that help achieve emotional education objectives is completely defect. Therefore, a trained and qualified teacher ensures the educational process's success.
- Only few teachers are qualified because the Faculties of Education do not adequately train teachers to deduce and integrate the educational objectives in curricula via using the appropriate teaching methods and means to achieve and measure them.
- Teacher preparation programs clearly focus on the cognitive and skillful objectives, not the emotional ones.
Therefore, the present study was conducted to make a proposal to achieve emotional education in teacher preparation institutions in Egypt.
The study adopted the descriptive approach and concluded that:
- The Faculty of Education's teaching staff members feels responsible for their students. Additionally, they are a good example for students, keen on interacting and communicating with students, and appreciate and are kind to them.
- The curricula, books, and courses offered to students are not updated in accordance with their psychological needs, consolidating curiosity and learning discovery, helping them handle the mechanisms and techniques of the digital revolution consciously, and acquiring the life skills required for the labor market.
- There is a shortage in the role of teaching staff members at the Faculty of Education in the achievement and development of emotional education among the students.
Accordingly, the study made a proposal to achieve emotional education in teacher preparation institutions in Egypt, including the proposal's philosophy and premises, principles and cornerstones, objectives, domains, procedures and mechanisms, and guarantees to be considered.
*[1] Assistant professor of the fundamentals of education, Faculty of Education, Sohag University.