Feedback: An Empathic Practice in Design Workshops

Abstract

Through this brief text, we will present some basics of the concept 'empathy' and some of the results obtained during our research currently in progress (López-León and Gómez, 2014), with the intention of comparing this information with an aspect of the evaluation stage that we consider of great relevance: feedback. Through our teaching experience, within a particular group of subjects known as Design workshops, we realized that both the practice of feedback and the concept of empathy have a direct relationship with our Institutional Educational Model (IEM), which represents a commitment, a starting point and a perspective from which we teachers at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes must reflect our professorship, in order to ensure the educational quality of the institution and student-centered teaching and learning processes with a fully humanistic approach.

Translated by Mario Alejandro López De Luna