Developing the Emotionally Literate School
- Katherine Weare - University of Southampton, UK
The author defines concepts and terms in ways that make sense to practitioners, outlines the scientific evidence behind the concept, explores ways in which schools can become more emotionally literate, and demonstrates the educational benefits. The book is a practical and up-to-date account of ways in which schools can use emotional literacy to realize their goals of school improvement and effectiveness, increased learning, more efficient management of teaching and learning, and improved relationships.
`As someone with an interest in emotional literacy and in developing emotional literacy work in schools, I found this book an impressive resource. I would recommend it for those interested in this area, those working within schools on emotional literacy, and for school staff interested in developing their schools as emotionally literature organizations' - Debate
'Visionary and easy to read.' - Young Minds Magazine
Selected this text for our newly verified creative curriculum Module and it has proved very useful with lots of pointers and ideas for the students to reflect on.
We discussed ideas in this book at length as one day was focusing on emotional literacy.
The feedback at the end of the day was positive and several students bought the book and did their assignment particularly on emotional literacy.
Consequently this book is classed as essential reading for the behaviour for learning course.
Useful text but the author could have considered the research that has been carried out about the negatives and possible disadvantages about certain interventions that target social and emotional learning (SEAL).
I teach a module on emotional intelligence in a learning environment and this very informative book is one of the key reading text.
