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Title: Emotional education as second language acquisition?
Authors: Macleod, Gale
MacAllister, James
Pirrie, Anne
Keywords: Emotional intelligence
Social skills
Emotions
Language and languages
Issue Date: 2010-04
Publisher: Centre for Resilence & Socio-Emotional Health
Citation: The International Journal of Emotional Education. 2010, Vol. 2(1), p.34-48.
Abstract: In this paper we argue that while emotional education intervention packages offer certain advantages, there are risks associated with their uncritical use. The main risk is that if the unwanted behaviour of some pupils is seen merely as a problem that can be dealt with through targeted intervention, then important, identity constitutive parts of their reality might become obscured. We reconsider sociological explanations of school disaffection, along with more recent sociological and philosophical attempts to explore the emotional aspect of schooling. We hypothesise that some of the challenging behaviour exhibited by young people in schools is solution seeking; that it is a functional adaptation to an essentially foreign emotional environment. We conclude that attempts to educate the emotions should aim to develop morally rich virtues rather than empty intelligences.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/6097
ISBN: 20737629
Appears in Collections:IJEE, Volume 2, Issue 1
IJEE, Volume 2, Issue 1

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