The affective life in Educational Theory. The treatment of emotions in the Seminario Interuniversitario de Teoría de la Educación

What place have emotions taken in the definition of human being on which the Spanish Educational Theory has been built? What recognition has been given to the affective system in reflections about what is or must be education? These are both questions that the present article tries to answer. To do so, a review of the work that has been made within the Seminario Interuniversitario de Teoría de la Educación is presented, considering the important role it has played in shaping the Theory of Education in Spain. The answers to these questions come from the members of the seminar themselves, whose reflections in this regard are presented in a summarized but detailed way, in such way that the own reader is able to follow this development