Circle Time: Feeling and Emotion
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Aji
Nur Hakim
Do you ever heard about circle time?
Based on Kent Country Council (n.d), circle time is teacher’s strategy to
discuss some issues in the field of education. In circle time, teacher is the
facilitator of the discussion, and all students expect to speak to perceive and
share their thinking about the issue.
In the field of affective education, for
the beginning, students helped by teacher can discuss about their feeling and
emotion. In my Affective Education class, we already applied it. In that time
we talked about feeling and emotion. Everyone must have those two. Everyone is
freely to speak up their thinking and their past experience regarding to their
happiness, saddest, or shocking moment in live.
The definision of emotion is widely
describe. This is the definition according to them:
(1)
James-Lange theory said that emotion is not the respond of
perception when the event happened, but it is the body respond to that.
(2)
Cannon-Bard theory said that emotion will happened when
body cannot respond the event.
(3) Schachter-Singer theory said that emotion is both
interpretation and body response of the event depend on the situation happened.
(4) Opponent-Process theory which found by Solomon and Corbit. They
stated that people’s emotion is the respond of opposite event.
In circle time occurs in my affective class is the
discussion of our feeling and emotion. What our feeling we feel right now. When
we share our thought, sometimes we were crying because it was too emotional. When
I remembered the pain and the struggle of my life in the past, I was blessed
that I can pass it through until now.
Through Circle Time, students can
understand more about their peer life and characteristics, so that students can
put respect of them and having more awareness. When a student having bad
attitude, sometime we cannot directly end up with conclusion that he is bad
person and students should not befriend with them. Students who can take lesson
learn of Circle Time must have different thinking. We have to take ourselves
into theirs. “Kau tidak akan pernah bisa
memahami seseorang hingga kau melihat segala sesuatu dari sudut
pandangnya…hingga kau menyusup ke balik kulitnya dan menjalani hidup dengan
caranya” (Lee, 2010).
To know others problem, we have to put
our shoes into theirs. Some cases of bullying or underestimation of people be
based on misunderstanding. People have different problem, different feeling,
and different emotion to burst it out. We have to begin investigate the reason
behind it and see with their perspective to understand them, although sometimes
it does not work. There is type of people who is too selfish to be not
understood by people. Or people who has difficult to discuss their problem
together.
Back to Circle Time, actually it can do
it anywhere and any kind of room setting. If the room large enough, teacher and
students will be able to do it in the floor. If the room did not have large
space, teacher can use the chair which formed a circle. If teacher want to have
different situation, Circle Time can held outdoors.
To start Circle Time, Kent Country
Council (n.d) says that there are some ways:
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I
sometime become jealous because…
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I
work best when…
-
I
feel happy when…
-
I
feel angry when…
-
Etc
Those kind of questions can use in term
of knowing students’ feeling toward some issues. It can develop based on the
issues teacher choose. The objective of Circle Time are developing students’
self-esteem, increasing self-esteem, and creating positive behavior, which is
part of affective education.
Circle Time rarely used by teacher,
whereas it is important to deeper the affective side of study. In Indonesia,
cognitive is the main center of study, while affective still need improvement.
Source :
Kent Country Council.
(n.d.). Circle Time: A whole school approach. Retrieved from http://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/introducing_circle_time.pdf
Sato, T. (2010). Four
theories of emotion. Retrieved from http://webspace.ship.edu/tosato/emotion.htm
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