Last 2nd of October, María Rosa Buxarrais gave a keynote at the 10th International Conference on Values Education at the State of Hidalgo (México). This year, the title of the conference was “Values for a Peaceful, Democratic and Harmonic Coexistence in Educational Centres”. The conference, that lasted until the 4th of October, had venues in the following municipalities: Pachuca, Tepeji del Río, Actopan, El Arenal, Huasca de Ocampo, Mineral del Monte and Omitlan de Juárez. Specialists in values education from Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico took part in this event.

The title of Buxarrais’ paper was “Managing emtions and feelings in education in values education: the care approach”. The seminar dealt with how to manage feelings and emotions, taking into account that they have an influence on the construction of the scale of values of each person. Based on the distinction between emotion and reason and that between feelings and emotions, an objective for values education is proposed: an ethics of care. Thanks to this model, we can understand that the world is formed by a network of relationships between people where certain values have priority, such as care, responsibility, gratitude and autonomy.