‘The emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior’ this is the best definition to understand what it the emotional intelligence. This kind of intelligence is investigated since 1980 and nowadays it’s used at school, work, and lifestyle.
On the first place, some studies have shown that people with high EI have greater health than other people. Markers of EI and methods of developing it has become more widely coveted in the past few decades. In addition to this, studies have begun to provide evidence to help characterize the neural mechanisms of emotional intelligence. This is useful to get more information of how our own emotions cause problems in our life like decreasing the efficiency in class, work or relationships.
If you want to know how you can teach emotional intelligence at schools you can observe the next video to understand it better. Enjoy it! CLICK HERE!
Learning in school is a progressive, planned activity cast in the light of the firmly held belief that children are different from adults and that they need to be prepared for the adult world at the same time as they need to be protected from it. This conception of learning and the very idea of childhood are recent inventions. There are reasons to believe that, with the advent of an electronically networked society, the clear distinction between childhood and adulthood is disappearing. One thing is certain, whether it be via the media or directly in their lives, children are increasingly subjected to the whole range of emotions known to adults, not to mention a wide variety of relationships spreading from the best to the worst.
- What would be the consequences of introducing emotional intelligence in schools?
Introducing emotions in schools it could be a problem because nowadays the introduction of this would be a radical change! Yet schools do not change so quickly. Those people who have tried to introduce innovations in schools have come up against a huge resistance from teachers, parents and politic powers.
One possible solution, it could be introducing the emotions and the skills that we work with them in the spaces around school. During the breaks, for example. Daniel Goleman, the best investigator of EI, describes how appointed pupil mediators, once all involved know the rules of the game, resolve conflicts in the playground. With emotion intelligence you can improve skills like self awareness, managing emotions, empathy communicating, co-operation, and the skill how to resolve conflicts.
On the first place, some studies have shown that people with high EI have greater health than other people. Markers of EI and methods of developing it has become more widely coveted in the past few decades. In addition to this, studies have begun to provide evidence to help characterize the neural mechanisms of emotional intelligence. This is useful to get more information of how our own emotions cause problems in our life like decreasing the efficiency in class, work or relationships.
If you want to know how you can teach emotional intelligence at schools you can observe the next video to understand it better. Enjoy it! CLICK HERE!
Learning in school is a progressive, planned activity cast in the light of the firmly held belief that children are different from adults and that they need to be prepared for the adult world at the same time as they need to be protected from it. This conception of learning and the very idea of childhood are recent inventions. There are reasons to believe that, with the advent of an electronically networked society, the clear distinction between childhood and adulthood is disappearing. One thing is certain, whether it be via the media or directly in their lives, children are increasingly subjected to the whole range of emotions known to adults, not to mention a wide variety of relationships spreading from the best to the worst.
- What would be the consequences of introducing emotional intelligence in schools?
Introducing emotions in schools it could be a problem because nowadays the introduction of this would be a radical change! Yet schools do not change so quickly. Those people who have tried to introduce innovations in schools have come up against a huge resistance from teachers, parents and politic powers.
One possible solution, it could be introducing the emotions and the skills that we work with them in the spaces around school. During the breaks, for example. Daniel Goleman, the best investigator of EI, describes how appointed pupil mediators, once all involved know the rules of the game, resolve conflicts in the playground. With emotion intelligence you can improve skills like self awareness, managing emotions, empathy communicating, co-operation, and the skill how to resolve conflicts.
