Life Experiences and Emotions .Around Robotics in Teachers: An Observation From Initial Education

ANGÉLICA DE SENA; CHAHBENDERIAN, FLORENCIA

Emotions in Digital Society.

IGI GLOBAL

Año: 2023; p. 118 - 140

Based on the relevance of the use of the various tools of Robotics at the initial level, this chapter aims to expose the results of the first stage of research on Digital Education, Programming, and Robotics at the Initial Level, based on the study of the incorporation of the Blue-Bot Programmable Children´s Robot in three Kindergartens of Vicente López, in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the purpose of understanding the meaning of its use, together with the emotions and vivencialities that it involves among the teachers. To achieve this end, a qualitative approach was designed, using ethnography and the Expressive Creative Encounters device (ECE) as inquiry strategies. The fieldwork included visits, open interviews, observations, and participation in the training carried out for the team and the ECE. From this plot of inquiry devices, it is possible to reconstruct some of the main experiential vivencialities and emotions that emerge in the initial level classrooms by the teaching teams that use them. This is of nodal importance to deepen research in education mediated by robotics and digital technology, as well as to provide clues on how future relationships with them are being built.