Recently, I wrote a review for the Spanish Journal of Pedagogy about an essay titled Educator's Heart by Jaume Camps, a former professor I had at university. The book highlights that behind many educators, we find something immaterial, something intangible that is often referred to as vocation. This is defined and perceived through the testimony of many teachers.
Recently, I wrote a review for the Spanish Journal of Pedagogy about an essay titled Educator's Heart by Jaume Camps, a former professor I had at university.
The book highlights that behind many educators, we find something immaterial, something intangible that is often referred to as vocation. This is defined and perceived through the testimony of many teachers over time: that which confers fullness, that invades from within; that grants a harmony and connection with students while helping them discover their needs.
Surprisingly, vocational teachers, without prior study or calculation, often show themselves capable of providing immediate and accurate responses to the most complex and confusing situations. This knowledge goes hand in hand with pedagogical love: when one wishes the best for the other, one is able to give what is needed to help them grow.
All of this, viewed through glasses of MAP - from the perspective of the existence of the interior -, reveals an interior capable of loving and providing immediate, accurate responses to any human situation; that makes one look into the eyes and discover the essence of the person.
Many times, it is experienced, according to testimonies from the book, as if there were an imaginary guide marking the path to follow. Without really knowing how, the guide provides results: an intuition that suddenly appears, complete, unexpectedly, out of all control. It arises precisely when reason, calculation; no prior reflection or study is present.
This inner knowledge is not studied in the university training plan but seeps through and preexists even before the professional choice itself.
From the irreplaceable personal uniqueness, one must attend to the heart from the heart (the interior from the interior of the person); only this is the effective path to harmonious growth (which allows for the integration of the exterior with the interior of the person).