The Diary of My Emotions: Recognizing and Supporting Emotional Wisdom of Children from Economically Underresourced Communities

Cristian Edgardo Navarro-Arana; Sonia Patricia Carrillo-Carrillo

doi:10.18357/jcs511202622358

Authors

Cristian Edgardo Navarro-Arana Minca Community Institute - Secretariat of Education of Floridablanca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-2839
Sonia Patricia Carrillo-Carrillo San Bernardo Integrated Institute - Secretariat of Education of Floridablanca https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9651-4806

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs511202622358

Keywords:

children's peer cultures, early childhood education, postdevelopmental approach, social and emotional skills

Abstract

This paper presents a reflective account of the implementation of The Diary of My Emotions, a pedagogical project designed to support and highlight the existing emotional competencies in a preschool classroom in an economically underresourced context. Grounded in critical childhood studies and postdevelopmental approaches, the initiative engaged children and their families in co-constructing emotional understanding through multimodal literacy, embodiment, and the visualization of their peer culture, which evoked their existing emotional skills and cultural knowledge making. Despite challenges such as time constraints and initial family resistance, the project contributed to a more inclusive and emotionally supportive educational environment.

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