Socio-affective skills in University Education in El Salvador: an urgent task

Habilidades socioafectivas en la Educación Universitaria de El Salvador: una tarea urgente

Abstract

The formation of the student, which begins in the Department of Social Sciences of the Western Multidisciplinary Faculty of the University of El Salvador, emphasizes that the educational process focuses on the development of cognitive skills and excludes or minimizes those of a socio-affective nature. For the integral education of the personality of young university students, it is necessary the inseparable unity between the affective and the cognitive. This requires that the teaching-learning situations contemplate the development of socioemotional skills in the human habilitation processes. A pedagogical strategy for the development of socioemotional skills in university students is based on a developmental conception. Theoretical and empirical methods have been used to express the essential ideas that typify a complex and integrationist vision of the development of socioemotional skills in university students as a task that cannot be postponed in education in El Salvador.