Emotional Intelligence is the ability to control and use our emotions to enhance our success in all aspects of our lives.

Successful learning is the combination of feeling, thinking and doing. What we feel determines not only what we think, but how we think. The consequence of this powerful and irrepressible partnership is behaviour that may sometimes be intelligent or sometimes not. The control centre of learning is our emotions. They are the enablers and paradoxically the constrainers of what and how we learn. You can never not learn, though you can powerfully constrain yourself from learning positive, constructive and generative lessons. We can only apply our tool kit for learning when we understand our emotions and how they dominate our development.

The book offers:-

• A series of structured activities for the classroom
• A succinct and readable summary of Emotional Intelligence
• Theory of emotional and multiple intelligences
• provide strategies for integrating Emotional Intelligence across the curriculum.

This book is a must for any teacher who wants to offer a more multi-layered approach to learning.

Author Michael Brearley  pub UK (2001) reprinted 2005  pb large format 107 pages.