Word: goleman
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...capacity for empathy and the ability to control one's emotions are more important than cognitive intelligence, best-selling author Daniel Goleman said before an overflowing crowd at the Graduate School of Education last night...
...Goleman, a psychologist and science writer for the New York Times, is best known for his ground-breaking synthesis of psychological and neurological research, Emotional Intelligence...
...Goleman structured his lecture around what he defined as the five basic components of emotional intelligence: self-awareness, the ability to handle emotions, motivation, empathy and social skills...
Some psychologists go further and challenge the very idea that emotional skills can or should be taught in any kind of formal, classroom way. Goleman's premise that children can be trained to analyze their feelings strikes Johns Hopkins' McHugh as an effort to reinvent the encounter group: "I consider that an abominable idea, an idea we have seen with adults. That failed, and now he wants to try it with children? Good grief!" He cites the description in Goleman's book of an experimental program at the Nueva Learning Center in San Francisco. In one scene, two fifth-grade...
Given the passionate arguments that are raging over the state of moral instruction in this country, it is no wonder Goleman chose to focus more on neutral emotional skills than on the values that should govern their use. That's another book--and another debate...