Integrating emotional competences in the Early Childhood Education curriculum

The current Spanish education legislation has started to highlight the need to work on emotional education since early childhood Education. The Spanish Education Law 2/2006 May 3rd (known as LOE), and all decrees and orders currently regulating the curriculum and teaching in Early Childhood Educatio...

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Main Authors: Rocío Guil, José Miguel Mestre, Gabriel González, Susana Foncubierta
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Language:English
Published: Asociación Universitaria de Formación del Profesorado 2011-10-01
Series:Revista Electrónica Interuniversitaria de Formación del Profesorado
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Online Access:http://www.aufop.com/aufop/uploaded_files/articulos/1324678678.pdf
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Gabriel González
Susana Foncubierta
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description The current Spanish education legislation has started to highlight the need to work on emotional education since early childhood Education. The Spanish Education Law 2/2006 May 3rd (known as LOE), and all decrees and orders currently regulating the curriculum and teaching in Early Childhood Education include contents and objectives related to the Emotional Intelligence framework developed by Mayer & Salovey (1997). Because all these laws and regulations give teachers autonomy for both designing and programming the curriculum in Early Childhood Education and because important relationships have been established between social and emotional competence and school adaptation, we argue in this paper that the training of future teachers in Early Childhood Education should include the development of emotional intelligence abilities and skills.This article presents an emotional education proposal for its integration in the second cycle of Early Childhood Education (children aged 3 to 6 years old). This proposal is based on Mayer and Salovey’s model (1997) of emotional intelligence. This model is the only one in which emotional abilities are considered cognitive-emotional capacities which can be developed and it matches the general goal of this educational stage and also the general aims and curricular contents included in the abovementioned legislation.
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spelling doaj-art-69fa868efe8141758b522831d31ffb912025-08-20T02:23:55ZengAsociación Universitaria de Formación del ProfesoradoRevista Electrónica Interuniversitaria de Formación del Profesorado0213-86461575-09652011-10-01143131144Integrating emotional competences in the Early Childhood Education curriculumRocío GuilJosé Miguel MestreGabriel GonzálezSusana FoncubiertaThe current Spanish education legislation has started to highlight the need to work on emotional education since early childhood Education. The Spanish Education Law 2/2006 May 3rd (known as LOE), and all decrees and orders currently regulating the curriculum and teaching in Early Childhood Education include contents and objectives related to the Emotional Intelligence framework developed by Mayer & Salovey (1997). Because all these laws and regulations give teachers autonomy for both designing and programming the curriculum in Early Childhood Education and because important relationships have been established between social and emotional competence and school adaptation, we argue in this paper that the training of future teachers in Early Childhood Education should include the development of emotional intelligence abilities and skills.This article presents an emotional education proposal for its integration in the second cycle of Early Childhood Education (children aged 3 to 6 years old). This proposal is based on Mayer and Salovey’s model (1997) of emotional intelligence. This model is the only one in which emotional abilities are considered cognitive-emotional capacities which can be developed and it matches the general goal of this educational stage and also the general aims and curricular contents included in the abovementioned legislation.http://www.aufop.com/aufop/uploaded_files/articulos/1324678678.pdfEmotional intelligenceEarly Childhood EducationEmotional competenceEmotional educationEmotional developmentSocial development
spellingShingle Rocío Guil
José Miguel Mestre
Gabriel González
Susana Foncubierta
Integrating emotional competences in the Early Childhood Education curriculum
Revista Electrónica Interuniversitaria de Formación del Profesorado
Emotional intelligence
Early Childhood Education
Emotional competence
Emotional education
Emotional development
Social development
title Integrating emotional competences in the Early Childhood Education curriculum
title_full Integrating emotional competences in the Early Childhood Education curriculum
title_fullStr Integrating emotional competences in the Early Childhood Education curriculum
title_full_unstemmed Integrating emotional competences in the Early Childhood Education curriculum
title_short Integrating emotional competences in the Early Childhood Education curriculum
title_sort integrating emotional competences in the early childhood education curriculum
topic Emotional intelligence
Early Childhood Education
Emotional competence
Emotional education
Emotional development
Social development
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