Improving emotional intelligence in early childhood education and cognitive development

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Published: Sep 18, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v2.441
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Emotional Intelligence Early Childhood Education cognitive development intervention programme

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Juana Gelabert Amengual
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Early Childhood Education is the second socialization agent for the child, and is co-responsible with the family for socio-emotional learning. In this context, it is logical to work with a balanced curriculum with regard to learning Emotional Intelligence (EI) within young children’s global development and according to the characteristics of their development, as this would guarantee their harmonious and competent growth, as requirements also reflected in European, national, and regional regulations. In order to this, it has been made an intervention programme that has as referents the basic psychological processes described by Mayer and Salovey in 1997 for EI and has been adapted the curriculum of students 2-3 years of Early Childhood Education. This work also includes the analysis of the programme effectiveness in the improvement of the EI and general cognitive development in a group of students with an average age of 31,7 months old. From this study, it can be concluded that the programme has been effective in both developments.

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Gelabert Amengual, J. (2014). Improving emotional intelligence in early childhood education and cognitive development. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 279–286. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2014.n1.v2.441
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2014): EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST
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