Dr.Esmeralda Dani was the guest speaker as a clinical psychologist in the educational workshop organized by the Department of Education Sciences, in a talk with the students of the Bachelor Program in Counselling Psychology and Pedagogy. Specialized in Clinical and Counselling Psychology, and receiving her dissertation on a topic that interrelates education and psychology, her studies and her scholarly contribution focus on identity formation in all its dimensions, and this was the reason why in her talk she focused on "The psychological origin of violence". Her open lecture concentrated on such issues as the nature and the origin of violence, aggressivity in men, scholars writing about these thematics, alternative definitions and approaches to the issue and the proposed solutions brought forth by the researchers on the issue. In this workshop most of the proactive discussions focused on such issues as 1-"Which is the importance of the question who am Ifor the sake of problem identification, problem avoidance and balancing the positive and the negative energies of an individual?2-Which are the ways of avoiding ,or diminishing aggressivity through having negative energy converted into positive proactive energy?3-Which are the international experiences, models and approaches in this field?
The workshop continued as a cross-question-answer session of conversations, discussions, and presentation of experiences among the psychologist, the students and the lecturers of the department present in the meeting. Of interest were the views of the lecturerLokman Coskun, who brought forth the Turkish experience, thereby promoting the discussions among the foreign students and the Albanian students and shifting their focus on the relevant experiences and traditions.
Thanks to this lively interactivemeeting between students and psychologist the interlocutors also outlined questions for discussionsin future meetings focusing on such specific topics as jealousy, bullying etc.
Marlise Sanchez Torres, a specialist in the field of education, held the first workshop with the students of the Department of Educational Sciences within the cycle of seminars that will be developed as a project for the professional development of students.
Specialized in different countries of the world as Costa Rica and Japan, Ms. Torres ways of injecting the culture of I can do in the classroom settings.
The seminar focused on explaining the techniques that help a teacher to build self-esteem as part of the child's personality in the teaching process. The teacher should bear in mind that the foundation of the education of the child must be optimism and a desire to move forward and not to be discouraged despite the errors or the challenges they face.
According to Ms. Torres some of the most influential techniques in teaching are: Formation of a friendly environment in the classroom where mistakes are acceptedand learning from them is promoted , encouraging curiosity in children, giving them freedom in the choice in topics that interest them, provide them with the opportunity to express themselves which will develop the ability to discuss, engaging parents in teaching curricula, teaching classes in close connection with the everyday experience of the students etc.
The event continued with the questions which led to lengthy discussions between Ms. Torres and education science students at the university.
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