A PILOT STUDY ON THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS THROUGH THE BODY IN THE EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

The main objective of this study is to make a descriptive analysis in order to investigate the possible relationships between the consciousness of body's development and the comprehension of emotions’ development in primary school. Besides, a study has been made on a sample of 43 pupils aged between six and seven years, divided into two groups: an experimental group and a control one, in a Primary School of Mugnano del Cardinale. The first group has made some psychomotor activities in a four months’ period; the second hasn’t taken part at the school education path projected for this study. The two groups have been put together casually and are quite alike from a socio-cultural point of view. At the end of the psychomotor activities the sample group has made the TEC, a Test of Emotion Comprehension . From the research we have seen that there is a correlation between corporeity and emotions. The experimental group has reached a much bigger consciousness of the body language right from the investigated emotions. The control sample, instead, even if it has a basic knowledge of the fundamental human emotions, has had difficulties to associate the mimic face to the corresponding emotion, this way it mixes up the different emotions. This demonstrates that corporeity and emotions go at the same pace.