EMOTIONS IN EDUCATION 2050: A FORECASTING EXERCISE

Abstract

Prediction on emotions in Education 2050 is both an important problem and a guiding force behind the search for the inter-connections that underlie natural and social phenomena. The aim of this work is to analyse the links and regularities between emotions and Education 2050. The present research is prognostic. The methodology in the present work is forecasting. The method of trend analysis, based on expert opinion investigation, was deployed. The research showed the trend - the emotions’ shift from a psychological phenomenon to the educational category. The trend is based on the analysis of experts’ opinions about the incorporation of “emotional skills” into Education 2050. The forecast for the inter-connections between emotions in Education 2050 is that emotional skills will play the key role in future education as emotions are the drivers of the educational process. During the educational process emotional skills are processed via cognitive evaluation, and, therefore emotional skills become the output/outcome/result of the educational process. Emotional skills will require further investigation of their sub-skills, structure and developmental dynamics. The novel contribution of this research is that the analysis of experts’ opinions is revealed as well as trend and forecast for emotions in Education 2050 are proposed.

Keywords

• educations 2050
• emotions
• emotional skills
• expert opinion
• forecast
• prognostic research
• trend