Emotional Education

Hi everyone!

In this post I am going to talk about Emotional Education in Primary Education because I think this topic is being better know every day and has a great impact on learning.

The main purpose of Emotional Education is to develop emotional competences such as emotional awareness, emotional regulation, self-management, interpersonal intelligence and well-being skills. Nowadays, families and school share the socialization and the formation of children's social abilities and emotional competences.

There are many authors who agree that the greater emotional development, the better social skills. I believe that education should not be limites to the knowledge acquisition, but should integrate all those aspects related to the human development through the social, emotional and moral side. Currently, there are emotional education programs that show their positive results in the academic students' performance, fact that increases the hypothetical relation between emotional intelligence and academic success. 

In a more concrete way, I am going to talk about the author Goleman, who argues that this kind of intelligence is based on the knowledge of one's emotions, on the ability to control them and to motivate onself, on the recognition of other people's emotions and in the control of the relationships.

As a future teacher, I consider interesting to integrate emotional education in the classroom so that optimal learning occurs and students can become amotionally competent. 

Here I leave you some videos that explain this in a more visual way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCm9AnoeItU 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmVhO3nL2EM 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXy2V1JmJUs

I hope that you have found it interesting and that it has motivated you to inquire more about this topic. 

Until the next post!!