Rising rates of aggression and depression in the schools led Daniel Goleman to compile the research summarized in his recent book Emotional Intelligence. He adopts the definition of emotional intelligence by the Yale psychologist, Peter Salovey: [1] knowing one's emotions, [2] managing emotions, [3] motivating oneself, [4] recognizing emotions in others, [5] handling relationships. Salovey subsumes in these categories Howard Gardner's earlier theory of multiple intelligences. including interpersonal, intrapsychic, spatial, kinesthetic, and musical, as well as Gardner's emphasis on motivating by students by getting them into the "flow" rather than by threat or reward. Examples of successful emotional intelligence programs cited by Goleman range from the Social Competence Program at Troup Middle School in Connecticut, the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program in the New York city public school system, to the Child Development Project in Oakland, the PATHS curriculum in Seattle, and the Self Science class at the Nueva Learning Center in Hillsborough, California.
For more information about Emotional Intelligence on the Internet check out links to
Cornell synopsis and online bilbiography
Prof. Leslie Owen Wilson's Emotional Intelligence links
my course, Emotional Intelligence and Computer Literacy
Emotional Intelligence in Schools
Emotional skills on the Internet
Summary by Learning Theory Funhouse
See also Emotional Literacy News, PO Box 620471, Woodside, CA 94062
