Knowing how we feel and feel is no easy task, the emotional universe remains a total unknown to each of us, to a greater or lesser extent, in this context, emotional literacy appears as an alternative to fill all those emotional gaps that still lurk. We.
No one has taught us what emotions are, what their roles are or how we can identify them, no subject cared about this in high school and was not even considered important for our education, in this sense emotions went unnoticed for years. until gradually they regained the prominence they deserved.
- Today.
- In addition to being social beings.
- We know that we are emotional beings and that.
- Depending on how we manage this fascinating inner dialogue.
- We will undoubtedly find emotions gained ground.
- Demanding that education take a step forward.
- A closer look at what emotional literacy is.
“Socio-emotional learning helps children develop communication and social integration skills. “- Neva Milic Muller-
The word literacy usually relates to the process of teaching reading or writing, basic competencies in the field of education, however, it seems that this concept has gradually developed different surnames depending on the content of the teaching, example of which are the terms computer, scientific or technological culture.
With these advances, we cannot help but think that education seems to face new challenges, among them one of the most superior and interesting for our well-being is emotional literacy: the process of educating emotions, from the school level.
Emotional literacy consists of teaching what emotions are, what they are used for, and how they are expressed; is to learn to understand and understand others emotionally. An educational challenge faced by more and more children’s schools through programs in which emotional education is already integrated.
In fact, concepts and emotional literacy and emotional education are used interchangeably to refer to the same thing. A train with a different name and the same route.
“Emotional education is the permanent and permanent educational process that aims to improve emotional development as an essential complement to cognitive development, constituting the two essential elements for the development of the integral personality. ?Rafael Bisquerra?
Authors such as Daniel Goleman and Rafael Bisquerra show great interest in this concept, and even more so for its development; in fact, Goleman points out that character education, the development of the individual’s morals and citizenship occur at the same time as emotional literacy. and education in emotional intelligence.
Thus, emotional literacy is an opportunity to deal with disruptive behaviors, aggressions and conflicts in interpersonal relationships, since the lack of emotional skills is usually related to these problems, if we educate emotions we will probably reduce such situations.
Beyond the knowledge of the emotional universe in which we are all immersed, emotional literacy has a number of goals (Carpena, 2001; Vallés, 2000; Bisquerra, 2000; among other things):
In addition, other authors point to other goals, such as learning empathy, emotional self-control and delayed gratification, positive behaviors that, in one way or another, influence not only their own well-being, but also that of others. .
The incentive to learn emotions in schools aims to make us learn to be smart to be happy. An intelligence focused on a holistic perspective in which not only the cognitive dimension is important, but also the emotional and behavioral dimension.
With this, we mean the fact that it is not only important to understand how we live everything we feel, but also their expression, how we should process the information that emotions transmit to us and, finally, how we manage them. this influences our psychological well-being.
In addition, children are not the only ones benefiting from this teaching and learning process; teachers and the entire educational community. And one way or another, parents also want and try to establish with their children what they have learned in class.
Emotional literacy is a challenge and, as such, an opportunity, a bridge that facilitates self-knownness and relationships with others, we are undoubtedly talking about a worthwhile awakening.