Question:
How can emotional intelligence be applied in the classroom, and what can teachers do to develop it in the classroom, while students can enhance it both inside and outside the classroom?
Answer:
The application in the classroom is called "emotional education," and it consists of practical activities focused on developing emotional competencies such as emotional awareness, emotional regulation, emotional autonomy, interpersonal relationships, life skills, and well-being. These activities are mainly practical, including introspection, role-playing, simulation, dramatization, discussion groups, emotional imagination, changing causal attribution, belief analysis, relaxation, breathing, meditation, readings, emotional gymnastics, emotional distancing, cognitive restructuring, etc. For more details, you can refer to the book "Psychopedagogy of Emotions" (Editorial Síntesis) and "Emotional Education and Well-being" (Editorial Wolters Kluwer). The Postgraduate Program in Emotional Education and Well-being at the University of Barcelona aims to teach these techniques to be applied in class through tutorial action, as well as across various academic subjects.
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