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Emotional literacy: The secret to learning engagement

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Being emotionally literate can help students to engage with learning, but it is through dialogue that emotional literacy develops and makes its contributions to learning. Sanjo Jeffrey discusses


Emotional literacy and emotional intelligence focus on people getting along because they understand their own emotions and the emotions of others.

Interacting positively with one another especially now that we are citizens of a global community is very important and emotional literacy is the key that opens this door.

Being brilliant and having a high IQ is not enough to achieve success in the world. In fact, Goleman (1998), an advocate of emotional literacy emphasises “Emotional Quotient” as essential for excellence in any field.

Nowadays there is greater need for people to connect and make use of their social skills above and beyond their “book intelligence”.

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