Emotions and meta-emotions in the educational contexts

Abstract

This paper aims to provide an overview of the debate around emotions and meta-emotions in order to work on formative strategies that encourage the development of emotional and meta-emotional skills. Acquiring said skills is essential, for the educators, to deal with problems such as emotional illiteracy and alexithymia involving large sections of the young population. In the second part of this paper, we present an empirical research concerning the links between music and poetry. Specifically, it is an experience of listening to music and writing a poem that ended with completing a meta-emotional notebook, by the participants, whose writings were studied and analysed with the NVivo software.