O desenvolvimento de emoções e sentimentos e a formação de valores

Abstract

This paper intends to contribute to the understanding of emotional development and value formation in capitalist society, by gathering recent works on the subject based on historical-dialectical materialism and historical-cultural psychology. It is an attempt to discuss the theme that encompasses the genesis and particularities of emotions and feelings in human activity, as well as the age periodization of affective processes and their relations with social values formation. Finally, considering that school has been concerned with promoting a kind of emotional and moral development that guarantees support to the capitalist society, the paper points out the need to develop critical alternatives to the hegemonic model, considering that the affective dimension is an element inseparable from reflexive processes and indispensable for the transformation of school and society.