Teacher’s Role in the Promotion of Two Emotional Intelligence Competencies in Fifth-Grade Children

Autor: Ruth Villanueva-Barbarán, Grettel Valenciano-Canet
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Revista Electronic@ Educare, Vol 16, Iss 3, Pp 49-75 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1409-4258
Popis: This paper presents the results of a qualitative study aimed at analyzing the teacher’s role in promoting awareness and management of emotions in fifth-graders, as competencies of emotional intelligence. This resulted in a very significant study since, from the psychopedagogic perspective, it aims at breaking with the traditional role of teachers exclusively focused on transmitting knowledge, leaving aside the much-needed emotional support. Children demonstrated a poor vocabulary, as well as difficulty to identify some emotions and differentiate between them. This means a limitation for children to be aware of their own emotions and to control them. As a conclusion, it is important to maximize the emotional capacities of students; it should be a primary task in the education centers, where teachers play a key role as a model and as a promoter of emotional intelligence.
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