José Manuel Bautista Vallejo, PhD – Blog personal
La importancia de la alfabetización emocional
Daniel Goleman adquirió fama mundial con la publicación de su libro Inteligencia Emocional. Ha vendido millones de ejemplares, es un fenómeno de multitudes. Previamente, en 1990, Peter Salovey y John D. Mayer habían escrito un importante artículo llamado “Emotional Intelligence”.
Hay un lugar en la obra en donde Goleman se pregunta si el Coeficiente Intelectual (CI) determina nuestro destino, a lo que responde: “menos de lo que pensamos”. De momento, con la inclusión de otros aspectos de la realidad hemos venido a hacer justicia a la inteligencia y, con ello, al ser humano. Este tema no es baladí porque desde principios del siglo XX la inteligencia y su referente esencial el CI han sido considerados como los ejes del potencial humano, de tal forma que alguien que no llegaba a un determinado número o marca contaba, palmariamente, con una inteligencia por debajo de lo normal, es decir, era menos inteligente, así de claro. Que nadie olvide las consecuencias, en muchos casos terribles, tras adoptar este enfoque como único, graves en lo personal y social porque otorgaban etiquetas a las personas, muy difíciles de retirar más tarde, cuando en algunos casos les acompañaban de por vida.
Por eso hablamos de justicia, porque la inteligencia es más que eso, y nosotros, los que estamos en esto parcial o enteramente, lo primero que tenemos que ser es muy prudentes. Además, hacer justicia a esta forma de entender la inteligencia es plantear un equilibrio y cordura en todos los ámbitos en donde la inteligencia ocupa un lugar preferente. Uno de éstos es la educación.
Así pues, de la estrechez de una visión de la inteligencia humana hemos pasado a la amplitud de las emociones y de cómo éstas están en el núcleo central de nuestra conducta. La moderna investigación sobre el cerebro y el comportamiento humano explican por qué personas con un elevado CI fracasan en sus empresas vitales, mientras que otras con un CI más modesto triunfan clamorosamente.
Goleman entiende que la inteligencia emocional es una forma de interactuar con el mundo que tiene muy en cuenta los sentimientos, y engloba habilidades tales como el control de los impulsos, la autoconciencia, la motivación, el entusiasmo, la perseverancia, la empatía, la agilidad mental, etc. Ellas configuran rasgos del carácter como la autodisciplina, la compasión o el altruismo, indispensables para una buena y creativa adaptación social.
La inteligencia emocional es un subproducto de la inteligencia social -otro libro de Goleman trata esto precisamente- que comprende la capacidad de controlar sentimientos y emociones propios, así como los de los demás, discriminar entre ellos y utilizar la información para guiar nuestro pensamiento y nuestras acciones. Se trata, pues, de la repercusión de las emociones en la vida personal y en el desarrollo del aprendizaje, superando, de esta forma, el planteamiento cognitivista de reducir la inteligencia al desarrollo de habilidades mentales.
La inteligencia social, más amplia y rigurosa, recoge todos los demás elementos, los individuales y los sociales, hasta enriquecer los modelos que explican la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de los seres humanos.
A la tradicional división que hemos hecho de objetivos-contenidos de aprendizaje de tipo conceptual (aprender a conocer y aprender a aprender), procedimental (aprender a hacer) y actitudinal (aprender a ser), el Informe Delors (1998) (documento en pdf) añadió aprender a convivir. Claramente estos dos últimos, muy influidos por lo que se escribía en la época y por el nuevo paradigma de la educación emocional, permiten entender mejor cuán importante es la adopción del enfoque de lo emocional en contextos de aprendizaje, reglados y no formales. Para muchos esto es puro trámite, para otros va a suponer una necesaria alfabetización emocional.
Pero como el propio Goleman advierte, es comprensible que muchos profesores se sientan sobrecargados por un problema escolar excesivamente repleto de nuevas materias y se resistan a dedicar un tiempo extra a enseñar los fundamentos de “otra asignatura”. Para esto, una de las estrategias utilizadas actualmente para realizar el proceso de alfabetización emocional no consiste tanto en imponer una nueva asignatura como en yuxtaponer las lecciones sobre sentimientos y emociones a las asignaturas habituales. No se trata de una asignatura más, se trata de proyectar una conducta que garantice elevados niveles de bienestar personal y relacional.
Me parece de gran valor e importancia una buena alfabetización emocional, ya que con ella los alumnos aprenden a medir sus emociones en diferentes situaciones, pero creo que esto no es una de las cosas que más se aprendan en la escuela, ya que de las emociones que tenga un alumno/a es de poca importancia para la mayoría de las escuelas, ya que gran parte solo se fija en la teoria, por lo que creo que si se debería dar mayor importancia a una enseñanza emocinal, ya que una inteligencia emocional y el enseñar a transmitis nuestras emociones, o el saber empatizar, me parece algo esencial y útil en el aprendizaje de los alumnos.
En mi opinión, la inteligencia emocional consiste en la capacidad de saber gestionar las emociones propias e incluso las ajenas desarrollando lo que se conoce como empatía, que es la capacidad de saber ponerse en el lugar de orea persona sin llegar a identificarse emocionalmente con ella.
Por lo tanto, como podemos ver hoy en día el desarrollo de la inteligencia emocional dentro de las aulas no se ejecuta cono se debería, ya que el desarrollo de las clases son enfocadas a la parte teórica de la asignatura.
Uno de los problemas más destacados es la participación unidirrecional ,es decir, llevar a cabo la clase por parte del profesor. Bajo mi punto de vista, esta actitud del docente es perjudicial para el alumnado, ya que su falta de participación durante el desarrollo de la clase, acomoda al alumnado.
La inteligencia emocional es verdaderamente importante, como se dice en el vídeo esta inteligencia es responsable del éxito personal y académico de las personas. Yo opino de igual forma, ya que me parece muy interesante educar o alfabetizar a las personas emocionalmente. A ayudarlas a mediar entre conflictos, saber solucionar problemas que se les planteen del día a día…
En nuestra vida como educadores sociales también deberá de ser fundamental que estemos bien formados emocionalmente, ya que nos veremos envueltos en situaciones que puedan abrumarnos o sobrepasarnos. Situaciones límite que se nos plantearan y que debemos de superar con temple.
Es difícil encontrar a una persona con un coeficiente intelectual (CI) muy alto, pero para mi, es más difícil aún, encontrar a una persona totalmente alfabetizada emocionalmente.
Encontrar a una persona que exprese sus emociones totalmente, no es algo fácil.
Ser inteligente emocionalmente significa saber evaluar tus emociones, controlar tus sentimientos…
Por ejemplo, para ser educadores sociales nos piden que seamos neutrales, aunque a veces vaya en contra de nuestros principios, ya que de esta manera no das a conocer tus sentimientos , controlando así emociones que te puedan perjudicar en tu trabajo.
Por eso, que tengas un coeficiente intelectual alto no quiere decir que seas inteligente en todos los aspectos.
Según Goleman y así hace costar en su libro el coeficiente intelectual es algo que tiene su importancia, pero no es determinante en la vida del individuo.
Ya que está demostrado y podemos ver en nuestro alrededor y día a día, como alguien con un CI alto o muy alto fracasan o no llegan al lugar que esperaban en la vida, y otros con un un coeficiente medio triunfan en cualquier estamento de nuestra sociedad, ya sea laboral, personal
etc.
Por esto la inteligencia emocional no es tener un coeficiente muy alto, sino que engloba otros factores en sí que son imprescindibles y que tienen que tienen que engranar para que se triunfe en la sociedad “perseverancia, empatía, motivación etc.”
Personalmente me gusta el tema de la inteligencia emocional, y es bueno no, muy bueno, aprender a controlar las emociones. He hecho varios cursos de inteligencia emocional, para mi misma y para trabajar con niños, es una experiencia muy buena donde se aprende muchas cosas de uno mismo que a veces no se espera.
En cuanto al CI, como dice el artículo, yo también pienso que realmente no tiene tanta relación con el triunfo de las personas en la vida, ya que a mi parecer es más importante saber desenvolverte en la vida social para llegar a conseguir tus propias metas, y nos encontramos diariamente con muchas personas que gozan de ser inteligentes en cuanto a un CI alto, y carecen de inteligencia emocional para afrontar los desafíos sociales que les presenta la vida.
Es muy importante dedicar tiempo a desarrollar o fortalecer la inteligencia emocional, propia como la de cualquier persona con la que estemos trabajando.
Pienso que una asignatura como tal expresamente creada para intentar hacer una conducta que garantice elevados niveles de bienestar personal y relacional, es muy difícil de hacer, yo lo veo más como hacer algunas clases prácticas, talleres, juegos,etc. a lo largo de toda la vida del niño en la escuela que haga de ellos personas con conciencia de igualdad sean cuales sean las diferencias existentes entre ellos, pero no creo que por hacer una asignatura en un determinado año los niños vayan a cambiar de parecer.
En cuanto al CI, pensaba que el que lo tuviera más alto tendría más posibilidades de triunfar, y desde luego este artículo junto con las palabras de Goleman me han dejado fuera de serie. Aunque alguna que otra vez que he pensado en personas superdotadas, casos de niños que se aburrían en las escuelas y demás, y pensando esto creo que de esta forma si puede ser que no triunfen por eso, porque de pequeños se aburren, nadie les entiende y hablen con quien hablen nadie estará a su altura, sólo otras personas con su mismo CI, lo que hace reducir su vida a un pequeño círculo de personas que puede que no sea lo que quiera en su vida, y que prefiera ser ‘normal’, de ahí a que los que tengan menos CI si que triunfen.
En mi opinión una persona con un alto CI puede llegar a donde quiera aunque sin una buena administración de los sentimientos y emociones no llegaría a ningún lado como bien dice el texto y no lo podría decir mejor “Goleman entiende que la inteligencia emocional es una forma de interactuar con el mundo que tiene muy en cuenta los sentimientos, y engloba habilidades tales como el control de los impulsos, la autoconciencia, la motivación, el entusiasmo, la perseverancia, la empatía, la agilidad mental, etc.” yo pienso que esa es la base del éxito aunque no se tenga un CI esplendido
La capacidad de una persona tanto personal como profesional pienso que se basa een como se plantea sus emociones. La inteligencia emocional ayuda a que las personas se den a conocer y a que sean más naturales.
Si es cierto que una persona con un CI alto tiene más facilidades en muchos ámbitos, por ejemplo, en los estudios.
Me ha gustado bastante este artículo y me ha parecido muy interesante.
Creo que el tema del CI, es un tema que interesa mucho en la actualidad, pero para qué sirve realmente tener el coeficiente intelectual más alto, como dice el texto que tenga el CI más alto no significa que sea más triunfante ni que tengas más posibilidades en la vida. Creo que todo el mundo tiene las misma posibilidades todo se consigue con esfuerzo y sacrificio, ya que tal vez por tener un CI más alto se aburre más en las clases o simplemente se confían y después fracasan. Creo que no deberíamos juzgar por el CI sino por la habilidad que tiene esa persona para relacionarse, hacerse respetar, llamar la atención, etc. Ya que eso es lo realmente importante ya que eso es lo que se valora a la hora de trabajar no el CI.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo cono este artículo ya que considero que el coeficiente intelectual de una persona es bueno y muy importante para la vida pero solo en un ámbito en concreto, el académico o el laboral. Sin embargo la inteligencia emocional es un aspecto muy importante en las personas que ayuda a relacionarse con los demás de manera más natural. Como bien dice el artículo hay personas con un altísimo coeficiente intelectual en las empresas y muchas de estas personas tienen mucho menos rendimiento en su trabajo que otras que poseen el coeficiente intelectual más bajo pero sin embargo tienen mucha inteligencia emocional.
Me ha gustado bastante el art, muy interesante.En mi opinión ,el exito de una persona tanto personal como profesional esta determinado por su capacidad para gestionar las emociones. .. Es la forma de interactuar con el mundo,destreza en los sentimentos..En cuanto al coeficiente intelectual ,son habillidades dsitintas pero complementarias. La alfabetización emocional es muy importante,saber lo que se seinte,las emocioens son parte inseparables de la vida. .Existe controversia con el Coeficietne intelectual quien no recuerda de pequeños cuadno en le colegio nos hacian los test…..apartir de 130 eres un superdotado . De que te sirve entenderte muy bien con los numeros pero ser un desgraciado si no sabes razonar en la vida… saludos
Para mí una persona con un alto coeficiente intelectual tendrá muchas más facilidades para determinadas cosas pero debería de complementarse esto con la inteligencia emocional. Cabe destacar que el coeficiente de cada persona no determina mucho su destino como bien dice Goleman. En definitiva, me ha parecido excelente artículo dejándome claro que la alfabetización emocional es muy útil para trabajar con todo tipo de colectivos fomentando la motivación, empatía, confianza, agilidad mental, etc. La alfabetización emocional favorece el incremento en la calidad de vida de las personas y en todas sus instancias y actividades particulares.
Que un niño o niña presente un coeficiente intelectual alto podría verse no solo como algo positivo, puesto que sería aconsejable que llevara un nivel más alto con relación a los estudios, pero siempre sabiendo que no hay que presionar, ni abusar puesto que ante todo es un niño y hay que dejarle su tiempo de ocio. Además, un niño con un coeficiente mas alto no tiene porque llegar mas alto que otro que lo tenga en un nivel normal, puesto que éste puede contar con otras característica que el sujeto A no tenga. Por esto , la educación emocional debe de estar presente, pero no debería decirse que tendría que estar como asignatura, sino que debería de estar presente en todas las asignaturas, ya que enseñando a lo largo de nuestra vida académica unas determinadas normas que nos ayudaran a sacar lo mejor de nosotros mismos.
En mi opinión el coeficiente intelectual no es determinante de la inteligencia, ni de saber aprovechar los recursos cognitivos que tiene el hombre, sólo es una medida que encasilla como bien dice el artículo, a las personas. Esto sucedía hace años atrás, por lo que nos impidirá avanzar si ese pensamiento no cambia. Gracias a la inteligencia emocional que se destaca ahí en el texto, podemos decir que hemos evolucionado en cuanto a este aspecto, aunque nos quede mucho por indagar en este ámbito, y profundizar en temas como el control de impulsos, emociones, el aprendizaje y desarrollo de nuestras conductas y de cómo recabamos la información para posteriormente utilizarlas para el bienestar y promoción de nosotros mismos, etc. Yo lo considero como un avance para la sociedad, que nos ha permitido alejarnos de las etiquetas personales y basarnos más en las cualidades de cada individuo tanto sociales como emocionales, ya no tan sólo guiándonos de la inteligencia mental o CI. Además debo decir que la inteligencia emocional va asociada o ligada intimamente a todo lo social, con lo que corresponde a la disparidad de personalidades y de formas o estrategias para conseguir el mayor beneficio o máximo rendimiento a la inteligencia general.
En mi opinión, la alfabetización emocional podemos incluirla en una “asignatura” para poder darla en las clase, porque los colegios además de dar asignaturas sin más deben enseñarnos el cómo debemos comportarnos en el momento adecuado, y sacar el máximo de nosotros mismos.
cuando habla sobre los niños que tienen el CI (coeficiente intelectual) más alto no son los que mas disfrutan de las clases, sino los que tienen un CI medio son los que en un futuro sacarán mas provecho de su inteligencia y triunfaran.
Precioso artículo, uno de los que más me han gustado. Me recuerda aun capítulo de un libro llamado ” Tus zonas erróneas” de Wayne W. Dyer. Considero que una persona con un buen nivel de CI, tiene más facilidad y/o habilidades para ciertas cosas, pero que no servirían de mucho sin inteligencia emocional. En el mercado laboral, a menudo se nos exige que produzcamos cantidades y supongamos un bajo coste, con un alto nivel de CI podemos llegar a producir lo que se nos pide, pero si no tenemos un buen dominio de nuestra inteligencia emocional podemos suponer grandes costes. Y ya no solo me parece importante en el mundo laboral, en nuestra vida diaria, según como manejemos nuestra inteligencia emocional, iremos por un camino u otro, determinando nuestro destino. En el ámbito escolar, considero que de forma indirecta el/la prfesor/a transmite a los/las alumnos/as valores vinculados con dichca inteligencia, y que por el bienestar de los/las profesionales, y por el bien del alumnado, una persona que se dedique o se esté formando para dedicarse a la enseñanza, debe poseer un buen control de inteligencia emocional. Considero que dicha inteligencia, nos aporta beneficios como por ejemplo: aumenta la autoconciencia; favorece el equilibrio emocional; fomenta relaciones armoniosas; potencia el rendimiento laboral; aumenta la motivación y el entusiasmo; puede otorgar mayor capacidad de influencia y liderazgo; aumenta el bienestar; facilita una buena salud…etc.
La alfabetización emocional debería ser enseñada en la escuela como todas las materias que son para adquirir conocimientos y salir mejor preparados para futuros estudios u ocupar un puesto de trabajo. La alfabetización emocional es necesaria para saber comportarse según cada situación. El coeficiente de intelectual no es tan escuchado actualmente antes realizaban estudios en las clases para saber el coeficiente de cada alumno, y saber que le deben ensañar y como se lo deben enseñar. Los niños con el CI alto no suele sacar partido de las clases ya que prefieren no destacar para que sus compañeros no lo insulten, aquellos alumnos con coeficiente medio obtienen mejores resultados. Aunque el coeficiente de cada persona no determina su destino estoy de acuerdo con Goleman. Por ejemplo yo no soy inteligente, necesito estudiar mucho, de forma constante para obtener los buenos resultados que he obtenido. Me costaba más estudiar que a otras personas con solo leerlo lo memorizaban y solíamos sacar resultados similares.
La inteligencia emocional repercute directamente sobre los educandos, hay que trabajar para sacar todo el provecho posible e inculcar estas herramientas tan útiles para vivir en nuestra sociedad y que resultan tan necesarias que pienso que se debería de impartir en la enseñanza reglada. Los futuros profesionales debe de poseer habilidades sociales e incluso personales que sean muy útiles para el devenir de los días, sobre todo cuando se trabaje con personas. Como futuros Educadores Sociales son unas herramientas muy necesarias y hay que dominar muchas de estas instrumentos para conseguir motivación, empatía, entusiasmo, agilidad mental, etc pues en estas profesiones hay que llegar a las personas con el manejo correcto de las emociones, sabiendo leer muy bien los lenguajes corporales e intuir que a nuestros usuarios les puedan ocurrir algo que por algún motivo nos oculten,,me ha parecido muy buen artículo y de gran calidad, Enhorabuena José Manuel para mí este ha sido el mejor de los que te he leído.
Personalmente considero que la alfabetización emocional es una “asignatura” más y por lo tanto debería de ser complementaria con el resto de materias, ya que es importante que nos enseñen a lo largo de nuestra vida académica unas determinadas normas que nos ayuden a sacar lo mejor de nosotros mismos. Por otra parte haciendo referencia a lo que menciona Goleman creo que el coeficiente intelectual (CI)de cada persona no determina su destino, ni tampoco creo que influya a nivel académico ya que en mi opinión es la constancia y el esfuerzo que se le dedique a una cosa lo que hace al triunfador.
Pues yo pienso que hoy en día, ya no se mira tanto el coeficiente intelectual que tenga cualquier persona como hace unas décadas atrás, yo creo que sigue siendo importante, pero con mucha menos importancia que antes, estoy de acuerdo con las palabras de Goleman cuando dice que el coeficiente intelectual no determina nuestro destino para nada. Desde pequeño nos quieren inculcar las diferencias entre el/la que es inteligente y los que no lo son; sólo por qué se basan en una prueba o test para medir el coeficiente intelectual de cada uno/a y de ahí se determina la inteligencia rpopia que puede tener. Hace un par de años, yo misma hice un test de inteligencia y el resultado me sorprendió gratamente, pero no lo considero relevante, sólo me pareció curioso de hacer y punto. Por otro lado no pienso que aquel que tenga un mayos coeficente triunfará más que el que tenga uno más bajo; la persona inteligente puede ser igualada por otra que tenga menos coeficiente que ella. Por último, creo que la alfabetización emocional debería de ser como cualquier “otra asigantura” pero garantizando un gran nivel de bienestar personal.
En mi opinión creo que la alfabetización emocional debería considerarse como otra asignatura más ya que hace hincapié en los aspectos cognitivos, como la memoria y la capacidad de resolver problemas.
Otra cuestión que nombra el texto es como el CI no explican plenamente la capacidad cognitiva, y aunque los alumnos que sobrepasen el limite determinado del CI, se les señala como que tienen una inteligencia por debajo de lo normal, esto no significa que no van llegar más lejos que las personas que lo superan, incluso llegando a obtener mayores estudios y siendo más profesionales que los más inteligentes.
Creo que la alfabetización emocional si es otra “materia” a impartir en clase, ya que vuelvo a repetir lo mismo que he repetido en textos anteriores, en el colegio no solo se debe impartir matemáticas, historia, e historia, sino también como comportarse en el momento adecuado, y como dar lo mejor de nosotros mismos.
Estoy de acuerdo con lo que dice el texto: que los niños que tienen el CI mas alto no son siempre los que mas disfrutan de las clases y mas provecho sacan de ella, ya que en la investigación se ha visto que los niños que un coeficiente intelectual medio terminan siendo los mas triunfadores.
There certainly is a plenty of literature about how to manage emotions. I also found a lot of articles regarding the emotional intelligence. The emotional intelligence is very important in a daily life. We often are exposed to different situations, in which we have to prove that we are able to manage our emotions. It is very good when someone has a high IQ but it is not the only thing which is important. In my opinion, people should observe themselves, how they behave in particular situations and how the others react on that. I am trying to do that. When the respond on my behavior is positive I may conclude that I can behave the same way again. When a respond on my behavior is negative I can have an another look on the situation considering different points of view and change it the very next time. But not everyone is able to observe himself and critically assess his behavior.
I have never heard this term, but if I am thinking about that, it is absolutely true what this article is saying. It is very important to take into consideration that there is not only Intelligence Quotient (IQ), but also something like omotional intelligence. No one can say what is more important and everyone has ech of these levels different. One has “higher” this and the other one the other. But this is ehat human need no to be all the same. Never the same people can invite something. There is needed the view of different way, so we could not oppress either one group.
What is more important? Emotional intelligence or IQ? I personally think that emotional intelligence has much bigger importance than IQ. People with high EQ can often better recognize and control their own emotions, and recognize emotional states in others. Because of that they can be successfully at work and in personal relationships. On the other hand high IQ means you have better logical reasoning, word comprehension, and math skills. You can learn how to improve emotional intelligence but you were born with IQ. So, that is why teachers have to develop emotional intelligent at children, to teach them how to become a good person and successful and satisfied with your life.
I really like this article. This topic is very interesting for me and I am always motivated to learn something more about it. I think that emotional intelligence is something that teachers should really pay attention to. It is so important for children to show them how to be aware of their feelings, how to be confident, what is empathy… And the best way to teach them that is to be a good example. That is why is so important for teacher to be emotionally mature as a person. And also we have to know kids in our class, so we can see if they have any problems and where they need our help.
I think that Emotional Intelligence is verry important for you life. Like in the video Maurice Elias said ” social and emotional development is an absolutely essential part of academic success and success in life.. ” so this thing is guideing you threw all your life. We have to teach our children firstly in schools that they will come better citizens.So you have to try it develop in your life. Even if you don’t have it so good. It like IQ yo can have it big goo bad ecs… but you can work on it with new knowledge new experiences in you life. Of course is hard IQ you have you have threw all life but you can at least try to make it better. If you’re emotional dork than you can’t feel everything you should of. I also loved the clip form the movie Dead Poet’s Society because teachers like that would make miracles.
Before I came to Huelva, I haven’t heard about emotional intelligence and education a lot. It was not so accented. But here I have met one really great teacher who made his lectures differently, from the emotional point of view. He has given me a lot of new knowledge about his subject and proved that emotional education is one of the most important aspects that should be used in education. Emotional intelligence is the most important to be developed in our children, because only healthy and happy child will be able to focus on something with great interest and perseverance. What will provide the knowledge, if we do not feel it? – it all disappears quickly. I know a lot of students, which have proved them to be successful athletes, artists, musicians, geographers, etc.., just because they love what they do, even if they are not successful with the other subjects. Such people who love what they do, will be able to get success in their life.
So, as my teacher told me, SMILE! Smile in your class in front of your children, love what you do, be passionate and children will do the same.
Emotions in school are really big of a deal, especially before highschool. To sum up my earlier comments, i emphasized that first children needs to feel good and safe at school to have a motivation to learn. Good teacher should think really careful about relationship between children and other childrens, and of course childrens and teacher, if there will be established a great atmosphere then childrens’ mind will be open and ready to learn. I had a really bad relationship with one of my highschool teacher, i was angry at him, and didn’t wanted to learn from him anymore. theese things can’t be let to happen.
Since this is my last comment, I want to thank you Jose Manuel for experience you gave me, you helped me see things differently. And I would loved to keep in touch with you, It was an honor to be your student. Gracias y buena suerte!
Although IQ shows the level of knowledge and partly skills, it is still just a number. This is because success in life is not just based on ready-made knowledge or capacity of one’s brain; even more, high IQ is not always the key factor for success in academic life. Therefore, this idea of emotional intelligence, in my opinion, is of a great value. Success is grounded as much as in one’s character as in knowledge. And it should be acknowledged by teachers and all the employees of the school, creating the environment where it is promoted and developed. But we must keep in mind that, at least for me, this emotional and social intelligence goes beyond schools and all the burden of developing it should not be put on educators. Parents, relatives, friends and society in general are as important “teachers” of this emotional intelligence as real teachers in a school!
For me emotional intelligence is more important than one’s intelligence (IQ) in attaining success in our lives and careers. Especially teachers must develop the mature emotional intelligence skills required to better education. Whether your a teacher or a social worker your responsibility to your students is to teach. Your students look up to you for the wisdom you have gained from research, your educational background and your practical experience and your overall intelligence. However, being an effective educator does not solely depend on your intellectual quotient, IQ it also depends on how well you can use your emotional intelligence
We are communicating every day with different people with different approaches, lifestyles and the way they are expressing their emotions. And the most important thing is communication skills. We are not asking about person‘s IQ when we are talking but we can do some conclusions about the emotional intelligence. It is the way to succeed in life because then person can recognize his emotions, realize how those emotions can affect people around him and how to react to a situation. In my opinion a good teacher has to understand the importance of emotional intelligence because then he is more able to make his students feel better. It is more easier to go through the life with a smile, positive attitude because it makes other feel the same. We have to remember this!
As a social worker/ teacher in social skills i focus on improving my emotional intelligence. My emotional intelligence allows me to understand, empower and reach people. In the world were living in this day emotional intelligence allows us to be successful and happy in life. It gives us the power to reach the feeling of belonging and self-actualization conform the theory of Maslow. This is very essential information for a teacher. A teacher prepares people to succeed in life played conform the rules of society to achieve happiness. Emotional skills like impulse control, self-awareness, motivation, enthusiasm, persistence, empathy and mental agility can only be acquired in class when a teacher is able to transfer flexible between the roles of mentor and teacher. His task is to involve/ motivate and inspire his students to explore their emotional intelligence and let them develop their unique vision and authenticity.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize your emotions, understand them and see how those affect around you. I heard that concept before, but I did not know that it is so important. I learned that today in many companies use EQ tests to hire new staff because it is believed that emotional intelligence is at least as important as IQ. Also, a person with high EQ means self-confident, self-aware and able to handle difficult emotional experiences that is why companies give so much importance to EQ. There is a crucial difference between EQ and IQ which is the former can be improved upon and learned, however the latter is something you are born with. Then why don´t we use EQ in our classes? Since every child is unique, every child has different emotions, by using EQ we can get better results about education.
I think that high IQ is not everything. Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive emotions, to direct them and navigate through them in different situations. Is therefore emotional intelligence important? I think that the answer is yes. It isn´t a cure-all, that replace the intelligence or technical skills, but it is certainly a significant foothold in life. It plays an important role in the guidance of others, in the work development and in understanding himself and others. There are school programs that emotion teaching, or supporting social behavior engaged and the result is lesser conflicts and better equanimity of personality.
I have to say that I read about the concept of emotional intelligence for the first time. It is true that intelligentce has to be supported by the emotional side of personality. In the case of weak emotional personality, the total intelligence is deadening. I think, emotional intelligence can be opposed to intellectual intelligence influence during life, to strengthen it or to weaken it. In my case I think, I have to improve my emotional intelligence to be emotionally more stable and more sure in my attitudes.
Emotional intelligence is so much important, but it is hard to observe. It’ an empathy but also ability o observing and controlling our own emotional system. It’s this part of our mind where difference between us and other people are not as great as in reality. If you see sad baby, you are sad also, why? It should be just only some information! But naturally we are creating some community with other people, we have to do it, because it’s much more economic and natural for our specie. When you problem is problem of all group, it means, that there is no individual problems, or individual persons, we are one group, one community, but constructed by a lot of pieces. That’s why in african or indian tribes number of crimes were so small. In our post-modern inteligent world there is no place for any community, you have to carrying about yourself, more often even in family. ,,That’s not my problem”, is more popular in using than f*ck. The most terrible for me is that more often we understand someone’s problem, but we are not able to feel it with this person.
In my opinion emotional inteligence influences our lives in a large extent. It determines the measure of empathy and understanding to others. Nowadays in many situations people are thinking more likely of themselves therefore we should develop our emotional intelligence and be more empathetic in face of other people. Emotional intelligence can be evolved and influenced from a child. If we are forced to not to keep down and hide our emotions from others, our potential of emotional intelligence will be decrease. We can find great impact of emotional intelligence in many types of professions from artists to managers. For example especially artists need to let their emotions and feelings to come out because in every piece of art we can find hidden emotions. Empathy is important part of coexistence among people, it makes life easier and helps to improve our relationships with others.
Another wonderful video from professor Bautista. It wouldn’t be better final context. As we are human being we all have senses and emotions. There is old saying that says ” You can forget what somebody did o you but you can never forget what did make you feel.” That saying explain whole context I guess. So as we are future educators we need to try to reach people emotion. Give one touch to their heart. When we were born we didn’t have any knowledge about anything but we had senses from the begging. Whatever we learned we just put it on our senses. So human senses and emotions are the base of what we learned about so far. As Maurice Elias says; social emotional development is central part of academic success. So we need to try to reach people emotion and give them one significance touch to their life. That’s my dream as future educator. Instead of giving so many information to my students I want to touch their heart , make some contribution to their emotional life, and help hem to find themselves in the best way.
Emotional intelligence is largely an individual’s personal emotions, self-perception index. Working with your emotional intelligence development, man and train the emotions, feelings and thinking areas. We are able to manage and control their emotions and feelings. This aspect is a key element of self-control that can be achieved by practicing positive thinking and working on emotion recognition and awareness. You can know all the secrets of the world, but if you do not have to be in to share, or make sense of it?! Yes, indeed, we can have great professors, to write a great book smart, but at the same time be closed from the public, because we are not able to socialize. I think that everything has to be in balance in order to survive, we need to deal with other people. I have a personal example, my brother has a high IQ level, teachers have always praised him, but where he is now! Two drop-top, and now works in a hospital for medical assistants, but will he be happy? Or has he been working on a self-realized all the way, I do not think so.
Thank you, Professor, for instance bet to think about the truths of life
I totally agree with Goleman about the emotional intelligence. The IQ of a pupil plays of course a role in his future life, but only moderately. Even more important for every person is his/her ability to act in society. One can be a genius in mathematics or speak 7 languages, but what if this person is totally incompetent in communicating with other people? This person will fail. In my opinion one must not be the most intelligent (according to IQ) person to have success in life. A good example for how society in Germany does NOT work like that is that there are not enough university places for those who want to become doctors. So nearly only people with really good marks in their Abitur are accepted at Universities. But does that mean that they will become good doctors? I don’t think so. Probably there are more competent people among them whose Abitur was worse. What is the advantage of having good marks if you are socially incompetent? Is a doctor useful who cannot interact with people? NO. So we need time until society accepts that the IQ of a person does not mean automatically that he/she will have success in life, but that the emotional intelligence is more important.
en mi opinión, hay dos aspectos a considerar:
1 – el factor emocional es un componente indispensable de aprendizaje y se puede decir que no hay aprendizaje sin emoción. En mi opinión, si una persona no siente una emoción, positiva o negativa, de un argumento que no se puede aprender nada! existe la posibilidad de almacenar alguna información, pero si no te sientes una emoción esta información se borrará rápidamente! Otro factor emocional muy importante, además de la emoción de un tema específico, es la emoción que suscita la relación con el profesore. Se imparte principalmente por el estudiante llega al alma y hacen excitar el tema para que pueda aprender todo! profesore no debe ponerse en un pedestal en contra del estudiante, ello debe ser un “maestro de vida”.
2 – “Otro elemento importante es enseñar a los estudiantes a cultivar su inteligencia emocional para que puedan confronare en la vida de todas las personas que conozcas. Son a través de la empatía y las habilidades sociales tendrán la oportunidad de disfrutar al máximo de las relaciones con los demás y las relaciones de trabajo. Cada persona es diferente, percibe el mundo de una manera diferente, por lo que, no puede pensere de utilizar la misma actitud de ponerse en contacto con nadie! distinguir el camino correcto para sintonizar una persona es difícil.
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is, along with IQ important element in everyone’s life. I think that in terms of education, IQ is very much more than EQ. But I disagree. After all, when you just look at children with ADHD or mentally disabled and disadvantaged people, they all have more developed EQ. Because children with ADHD disorder is logical that those that are different from their peers, they become more emotionally based because of innate differences. The mentally disabled people is more than obvious. And what about animals? Not all have the intelligence of dolphins, but they have feelings on the bases of which survive. So I think that should also be taken into account schools for emotional man pages. The best solution is that it should go hand in hand in IQ. Of course some people are more sensitive, others less. So I think that would be in addition to IQ and EQ development school.
Emotional intelligence is a important part of education, because it´s connect with every part of life. We need emotions to understand people, to understand situations and things, which happened in our life. I think our teachers have to teach us also this site of education, because as children growing up, they learn step by step how to live in the society. Without emotions teachers don’t get a success. During our life we create new relationship and we need emotions for that. Emotional intelligence don’t belong to my new terminology, in my field of study we learned about that in many ways, but nowadays educational system miss emotional education and I think it has a important position in education.
I think it is essential to focus on the emotional intelligence throughout all the years in school. It should be a natural part of the education just like any other subject that is taught because in my experience people most of the times make decisions based on their feelings and not on their intellect. That is why it is important to be aware of the feelings we have and how they could be expressed in different ways. We need to be aware of both our own and others feelings. It is necessary that we understand the different feelings and know how to deal with them which is possible if we can recognize them and relate them to ourselves. Communication skills are of significance as well because I believe that it is just as important that we can put words on what we are feeling for increased understanding and to prevent actions that sometimes are related to specific feelings. Emotional intelligence will make you evolve as a person and you will have a greater understanding for yourself and others and also your surroundings. (Perhaps the awareness will change our decisions based on feelings). In addition to that it would contribute to good relationships between people and that is essential to life.
When we are talking about inteligence I think there are not a lot of people who would think about emotional inteligence. It is not really the topic at the forefront in education. The article is interesting and I also think that emotional inteligence is very important in childrens development, school and their education. In school I think there is more focus on intelectual capacity and emotions are in a lot of cases left behind.
I think that it is important to encourage in schools also emotional education which provides a better development of children and in this part role of the teachers is very important.
Good article! The concept of EQ has been known to me for a long while. In the schools in Sweden (at least my schools) we often talk about the importance of EQ and how to develop it thru group work for example. I think it plays at least as big part as IQ in succeeding in life. From what I can tell IQ is more important in earlier years in school. Some kids are just better. But when you start college the EQ plays a big part. In college it’s more important to be able to work with big project than before. I can see clear patterns that those people that have a hard time negotiating and work in teams will have a hard time no matter what their intelligence level are. So its important to work with your EQ from early years or you will have a rough time later.
I also think that EQ gets more and more important these days than before. Now we work with different cultures and over land borders. Then we will need this social knowledge to succeed.
I totally agree with (most of comments) about IQ & judging individuals personality just by a number. I mean, why should we judge one by just a number. We might never have tested that person in a real case scenario, or in other situations. Emotional intelligence is though also very important in this century & society we’re living in, personality, motivation and to be able to express youself might be as important as intellectual intelligence as it will help student work & study. I would also say that developing students social emotional intelligence cant be just thrown over to teachers, parents have a bigger part to play here since children learn most from them in their early age. I would also thank the author for writing a bit different article this time!
In a lot of schools it’s important to have a high IQ, but personally think that the EQ is more important to functionate as a good person in life. You can be the smartest person in the whole world, but if you have a retardation of EQ and don’t know how to communicate approperly with other peoples, I think it’s also hard to find a job then. During a solicitation you also have to show to you future boss you have a teamspirit, and you are able to work with other people. Having a high EQ is also good to work together with other people because you have the knowledge to understand the people. Also even if you don’t know the people it’s important you can work with them together.
The concept of emotional intelligence, I havn´t met many times. I know just the notion of IQ, at school and on the Internet, I met with these tests, but personally I do not like it very much. It is a number that indicates the intelligence of person, but I think intelegince person can not be express just by number, becouse intelligence of person is more branched. Psychological tests and IQ tests do not tell us anything about what they will in their lives and if we achieve what we set out to do. Here comes emotional intelligence. If a person has developed emotional intelligence, far more likely that you will reach its pre-determined and can overcome bad habits that it be limited in diversity.
Emotional intelligence is a new term and field of science for me, and, I`m glad to get to know it through this blog! I was very surprised but happy to read about the fact that high IQ is not necessarily the determiner of somebody`s success in life. It is a common view that all the ‘smart and intelligent’ people have great jobs and careers while people with lower IQ are just their employees. However, I truly believe that emotional strength and character`s uniqueness is equally if not more imporant and essential for innovative and creative ideas. Therefore, emotional intelligence, I think, is a great concept of how to connect two basic key factors of success together. Because, the intelligence is measured by standards believed to be true and correct, but they are still human-made. While emotions and character cannot be measured. And the things you cannot measure are usually the ones that help you the most in your way.
Creo que no se habla suficiente de la inteligencia emocional. Esto es lo que nos da fuerza cuando la necesitamos. Inteligencia intelectual se necesita construir a pesar de que como niños tenemos IQ muy alto. Inteligencia intelectual nos puede ayudar a estudiar y trabajar. La inteligencia emocional se desarrolla la gente creativa que expresan a sí mismos y el aprendizaje. Ellas son muy conectados. La inteligencia emocional se puede ver mejor en los niños pequeños. Importante es control de sus emociones y saber cómo llegar bien a la meta. Me gusta mucho leer sobre esas cosas. Pienso que nos puede ayudar mucho.
Both IQ and EQ are very important, but the importance of EQ is often underestimated. When it comes to happiness and success in life, emotional intelligence matters just as much as intellectual ability . Emotional intelligence helps you build stronger relationships, succeed at work, and achieve your career and personal goals. Everyone probably knows people who are academically brilliant and yet unsuccessful at work or in their personal relationships. Intellectual intelligence or IQ isn’t enough on its own to be successful in life. IQ can help you get into college but it’s EQ that will help you manage the stress and emotions of sitting your final exams.
Emotional intelligence is a very important matter in our society nowadays. In many fields, such as art, education and others, having much knowledge and craftsmanship is not enough to succeed. Personality, character, motivation and expectations may be some more important factors.
This is why the emotional literacy must be one of the main goals of school. Teachers must help their students become able to coexist and cooperate withs others efficiently.
Finally, according to scientific research, teaching itself is much more effective when it
targets to the emotional involvement of the students. This means that on the one hand, teacher can gain the attention of his students when he uses humor, surprise and provokes emotions. On the other hand, when he encourages the development of possitive relationships between him and the students, or the students themselves, as well as cooperation and understanding each other, he helps them feel safe and desire to involve into the educational procedure.
The emotional state of mind can or will affect the learning in that matter that the child will focus in something else and thereby can get an instable learning. I did a practice in a preschool were a lot of the children were or had origin than Sweden. In one of the sections they worked a lot with emotions and worked in smaller groups with painting, singing, playing and talking about different emotions. They talked about that it is ok to be angry but how can you do to make yourself happy again. What do you do when a friend is sad but at the same time point out that it is ok to feel sad sometimes. A lot of these children came from war or a conflict affected areas/countries which impeded their language learning and concentration skills. They did not learn as fast as they should but by the time they got into the system the section used it made them a lot calmer and more receptive to learning.
It is interesting to finally read something different to intellectual “abilities”. What is important is not only the intellectual abilities, the importance of emotional intelligence is as important as well, and it is sad it is so rarely noticed. However, why emotional education is important is because the base of anything later in life is more based on the emotial part than only the intellepart. It matter what kind of person you’ll have become trough good education, not only how good brain you have. And it is important for the own personal developement!
Extremely interesting to know that education today is trying to involve emotional and social intelligence. It will help each individual student create their personality with beliefs and most importantly trust their OWN opinion, in order to obtain, a voice. Which will show them how to act in different situations and how to handle everyday life with ease and no clueless thinking. It is this thinking that sinks every man’s dreams, it is time this chapter of intelligence was brought into the theme, since from now on people will start thinking differently, and trust me the results will show in processional and social life. In other words, starting from schools up until university, teachers and professors should direct children into this behaviour so that they can see the world from a different perspective.
Very interesting article. Emotional intelligence is an important, but less adhered, factor in education. In my opinion it is so important to know the own emotions and to handle with them, but probably it is as difficult as to teach such skills than mathematics or other school subjects. Mainly if you consider that persons in leading positions (e.g. politicians) or entrepreneurs, who have to take long-range decisions for many other people(s), it is important that these persons should have a high emotional intelligence.
So this would be so important for each pupil to learn more about itself and teacher should support and believe in them, because it is so important for the own personal developement!
For social life is important emotional inteligence. I think emotional inteligence is ability to know our feelings and treat them the way to lead to positive goals. important is knowledge of our emotions, managing emotions, the ability to motivate yourself, sensitivity to the emotions of other people and the art of interpersonal relationships. Each of us has some bad qualities, bad habits and weaknesses. Field emotional intelligence is optimistic in that on their characteristics in this area we can work on it and be better. woul be nice to know how control our emotions. life would be more easy and we understand more to each other.
This is a great article, thanks for a new topic! I think it is very important to know about emotional intelligence and to work with it. Often people think we don’t have to learn how to interpret and how to handle our emotions, thats wrong. Emotional intelligence can be and has to be learned. To recognize your own emotions and those of others helps to encourage and promote people, especially people in leading positions. Children already have a tendency towards empathy, but depending on the environment in which they grow up, they have partly no chance to live these feelings. That’s why it is so important that teachers believe in their students and help them to talk about their emotions and to create an environment, where everybody can be him/herself. Let me call it “the art to feel comfortable with each other”. Then we can achieve a better world!
schools focus primarily on intellectual abilities. the importance of emotional intelligence is rarely noticed. School curricula are overloaded, and emotional abilities are treated marginally. Emotional needs of students are quite often overlooked by teachers, either for lack of time or lack of appropriate knowledge and skills. Emotional abilities are the essential foundation of all learning. emotional education of children should not be left to chance. the school is standing in front of new and difficult task. It has shaped the whole person, taking care of both his mind and heart. This is possible only if incorporated into school curricula are content for developing emotional intelligence in children. Because thanks to emotional intelligence children will be able to effectively influence their lives, because their action is determined not only understanding, but also feelings.
I like the article much because ,to me, emotional Intelligence and social intelligence are the core things in today’s education system. It would be much more practical to teach these concepts while teaching other subjects. Students need to know about their feelings because many students are too sensitive about the wrong things, such as phony boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. If a student has all the knowledge in the world, but no confidence, they probably won’t make it very far. People need to mentally tough as well as sensitive to the feelings of others. However, I have some doubts that schools could teach EQ any more than they can influence IQ. I suppose the best they could do is to point the way. However, developing social emotional intelligence is not only the schools’ job, but also the parents’ job. Children as young as 4 or 5 should already come to school with SOME skills in how to make good decisions and control their emotions.
Emotions are accompanied by a human at every stage of life. Only on his ability to recognize emotional states and others depends on if he will be able to solve the problems that he’ll face.
Success in school depends largely on the characteristics of emotions formed in a child’s early years. Education programs should include learning basic human skills, such as self-awareness, self-control, empathy, listening to others and the art of conflict resolution and cooperation.
The most important contribution that schools can make to a child’s development is to help him to find an area that best suits his talents in which he will be a competent specialist so that in the future he will have a job which will give him satisfaction.
This is a great article, and I agree completely with the importance of emotional education. The idea of social intelligence and emotional intelligence in particular are highly important in order to make the world a better place. I have never recognized IQ tests as something good since I believe that social intelligence and emotional intelligence is much more important since it does not matter how high your IQ is if you cannot communicate with other people both socially and emotionally. Sometimes the educational system has flaws and it can result in overlooking some student’s individual skills. Therefore, emotional education can help to find a balance, whereas by gaining emotional intelligence we will come to consent where we understand that no one is less intelligent. Instead emotional education should be taught to the students so that they learn how to control certain situations, recognizing empathy thus reach a great self-awareness. This will later on help them to find themselves and their creativity, and this does not only regard their student time but their whole life.
To get the knowledge about how to interact in different situations are a big part of the social life, therefore it´s important that we learn how to handle different situations and get the tools for it. The emotional knowledge is a big part of it and it´s important with knowledge about it to keep the developing of the humans. It may sound a bit cliché and some people don´t want to talk about it but it´s necessary to feel good and have an emotional mind to succeed with your profession and keep your career moving further. That´s why it´s important to talk about these questions on a serious level and not only trying to joke it off.
First of all, I must say that I completely agree with the sum and that will surely search for the book of Daniel Golemis.
Teachers play the most important and dominant role in a child’s life and this is why the job of the teacher is ministry. How different would the world be if we could through schools and universities could create emotional and moral people and how different would our society.
Unfortunately, in Greece where I come from, emotional education does not exist anymore and unfortunately the education system becomes increasingly cruel and inhumane creating “people-machines”.I really hope at the end this will change.
I love one adage:” Behave with others the same as you want that they will behave with you”. To show kinds a good and proper example – this must be the main reason and person’s purpose why (s)he wants to be a teacher. I definitely agree with Dr. Maurice Elias that child always must be pushed to move forward but not to be left behind and the main role in this action have teachers. Moreover, teacher is the person who can stimulates kid’s wishes, dreams and inspires (s)he to achieve it. Teacher has to collaborate with children and other teachers and tries to connect social, emotional and academic learning in one place but not separate pieces. About the emotional education I think that it is very very important because it provides and can develop some very important characteristics of person for example impulses control, self – awareness, persistence and so on.
Parabens pelo artigo nobre Prof. Bautista!
Seu trabalho preenche perfeitamente as lacunas de meus pensamentos…Realmente as emoções nos movem e deixam transparecer a nossa subjetividade apontando aquilo que verdadeiramente somos em determinado momento. O grande desafio da humanidade é educar os sentidos para uma existencia mais digna… Eterno abraço!
Caro amigo Everaldo:
Muchas gracias por tus palabras. Tenemos claro que nuestra razón no puede funcionar sin la energía emocional, de ahí que necesitamos explicar cómo funciona la conducta humana y hacer propuesta sugerentes.
Espero que sigamos en contacto.
Forte abraço.
José Manuel Bautista.
Believing in yourself and in your students is the first step to good education.
If you have no one to look after you, no one who believes in you, your way to succes will be much more difficult.
Emotional education is important because like they’re saying it’s the base of everything.
later in life it will not matter what you’ve learned in maths or history, it will matter what kind of person you’ll have become trough good education.
Only when you have enjoyed good emotional education, you’ll become and be the person you where destand to be from the beginning.
You will get much furder in life when you know how to communicate and speak your mind than when you have learned everything out of a book.
Speak your mind and learn that what you have to say will matter, only if it’s just for yourself.
Great article. I think it’s good that we pay attention to topics like emotional intelligence. Whether it’s in the boardroom or the classroom, individuals need the skills to communicate, work in teams, and let go of the personal and family issues that get in the way of working and learning. Such skills add up to what is known as emotional intelligence, these skills are critical to academic achievement.
Social and emotional learning programs work best when parents and teachers are partners, and that means that they both need to promote behavior that improves communication, empathy, self-awareness, decision-making, and problem-solving.
this is a vision of education that says that educating the heart is as important as educating the mind,
Thanks Josje, all the best. JM.
The further development of our emotional and social intelligence is a lifelong process. Associated skills of emotional intelligence are important in all areas of life. For me it is logical to develop new practice concepts which promote this skills in school. Implementation can sometimes be simple. For example in Germany there was a research project in which three classes were involved. Over several weeks exercises were conducted in the classroom such as reading stories, relaxation exercises or Qigong. As a result can be emphasised that the pupil reacted less impulsive in their emotions and social behavior. They were able to deal calmly with school challenges. That proves that through low efforts promotion of emotional intelligence is possible in schools.
Estimado José:
Muy buen artículo. Pienso que la educación emocional es el punto nodal al que nos enfrentamos los educadores, en todos los niveles del sistema educativo. Considero, además, que será la clave de la alfabetización “ampliada” que exige este siglo XXI, donde nuestra propia supervivencia como especie, como sociedad humana, dependerá de nuestra sapiencia para relacionarnos con el otro y con lo otro, en una nueva realidad envolvente, totalizadora, donde la construcción de nuestros vínculos entre los seres humanos, entre las culturas, entre las civilizaciones y con la naturaleza serán el pilar fundamental desde donde se proyectarán, y dispararán, nuestras acciones en todos los órdenes de la vida.
Está en nosotros, educadores, saber leer los nuevos signos de este tiempo. Y el manejo de las emociones es, sin duda, el aspecto central que tenemos que APRENDER a cultivar, corregir, mejorar y potenciar.
El inicio del nuevo año (2013) es una buena ocasión para comenzar a trabajar en esta dirección.
Saludos
Magister Emilas Lebus
República Argentina
Estimada Emilas:
Muchas gracias por tus palabras. Aunque la cuestión no es nueva, es cierto que ha sido muy desatendida de manera práctica a nivel aulico. La importancia viene dada por cuanto que no sólo somos cognición, somos también emoción, y es esta última la que en ocasiones descuidada viene a obstaculizar o destruir la primera.
Afectuosos saludos.
José Manuel Bautista
Emotional Intelligence and social intelligence are some kinds of skills that are very difficult to recognize them and of course to cultivate. Nevertheless, in my opinion such skills are the most admirable in a person’s character. For this exact reason, it is sometime difficult to cultivate them within the school education. Some kind of emotional intelligence can be cultivated by literature courses in school but still remains in the lowest level of its cultivation. During the history there where examples of teachers that tried to improve this field but unfortunately they weren’t acceptable by their co-workers in the academic system for the way they think and the way the “teach” the students. Nevertheless, has be proved that all of the students had been improved themselves through such a system and they really enjoyed the meaning of “course”.
Emotional intelligence shows us that nobody is “stupid” or “unable” to achieve something. Just the educational system is incomplete and non-ready for giving to every unique personality the ability to improve his/hers unique skills. It is true that schools need update and one of the most important fields of updating could be the cultivation of emotional intelligence.
Buen artículo. Yo digo que la felicidad consiste en saber gestionar los conflictos, que va en consonancia con tu artículo.
Es cierto Fernando, la felicidad consiste en estar en paz con uno mismo y en estar en paz con los demás… “Por experiencia interior, la persona se nos aparece entonces como una presencia dirigida hacia el mundo y las otras personas, sin limitaciones, mezclada con ellos, en perspectiva de universalidad. Las otras personas no la limitan, la hacen ser y desarrollarse. Ella no existe sino hacia los otros, no se conoce sino por los otros, no se encuentra sino en los otros” (Emmanuel Mounier).
Un abrazo.
Jose, muy buen articulo, nos da mucha luz sobre el tema de la educación del ser humano. Realmente muchas personas no prestan mucha atension a este tema que marca al ser humano. En mi caso al ser padre preste 1% sobre el tema y luego pase a 20% y asi subiendo… es de locos esto al darme cuenta que la educacion mundial esta diseñana para guiar a las personas pensar lo que LAS EMPRESAS/FABRICAS NECESITAN asi empezo todo creo y continuamos asi, con toda la revolucion tecnologica el cambio es lento.
saludos
nery segovia
¡Gracias por tus palabras Nery!
Aumentar los niveles de conciencia sobre las cuestiones que nos afectan es importante, estás en el camino, razón de más para seguir trabajando. Ánimo y a luchar por lo importante.
Saludos.
José Manuel Bautista.