educarnival 2014- presentation by professor lata dayaram
TRANSCRIPT
Nurturing Emotional Intelligence
Dr Lata Dyaram , IIT Madras
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A PRAYER FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CHILDREN
God, help us not raise a new generation of children
With high intellectual quotients and low caring and compassion quotients With sharp competitive edges but dull cooperative instinctsWith highly developed computer skills but poorly developed consciencesWith gigantic commitment to the big “I” but little sense of responsibility tothe bigger “we”With mounds of disconnected and unsynthesized information without amoral context to determine its worthWith more and more knowledge and less and less imagination andappreciation for the magic of life that cannot be quantified or computerizedWith more and more worldliness and less and less wonder and awe for thesacred and everyday life.
God, help us raise children who care.
(Edelman, 2008)
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• Young adults throughout the world are living in an extraordinary time in human history. Society and children’s life experiences have changed dramatically during the last century to varying degrees and in almost every part of the world. Thanks to modern media and technology, the average world citizen has immediate access to ideas and people from all over the globe. The state of the world economy has shown us how interdependent we all are.
• The global market requires an ability to navigate differences, work effectively in teams, and get along with others by bridging language and cultural barriers.
• As our planet shrinks, the problems of the environment, health, poverty, economic inequality,• nuclear weapons, war, and terrorism all are globally interconnected.
• Children growing up today will not just inherit the world’s problems. They will be expected to have the skills and the will to help solve them.
• How will they be prepared to cope successfully with their daily lives and lead us into a complex and uncertain future when a narrow, inadequate vision of education still prevails for so many of the world’s children?
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• IQ is about 24 points higher now than in 1918- due to better nutrition, more school, smaller family size etc. However, EQ is down compared to
the last generation. Kids now are more lonely and depressed, more angry and unruly, more nervous and prone to worry, more impulsive and more
aggressive. Now, there are rising rates of despair, alienation, drugs, juvenile crime and violence, eating disorders, unwanted pregnancies,
bullying and dropping out of school. (Daniel Goleman 2007)
• Leadership and academic leadership is largely an emotional intelligence. Some estimates put it as high as 90%. Leadership encompasses
influence, achievement drive, self confidence, team skills and political awareness. Failed leaders were too critical, moody, angry, defensive and
lacked empathy.
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• Thus we live in confusing times.
• On the one hand, teachers are being exhorted to ‘deliver’ a tightly prescribed curriculum, administer pre-packaged tests and rate young people according to levels and grades in prescribed subjects.
• The emphasis is firmly on the pragmatic, the practical and the measurable.
• On the other, there is an increasing emphasis on the more effective aspects of education, on personal and social development.
• Fortunately, there is evidence of a sea change in education worldwide, a new way• of thinking about what it means to be not only an educated person, but a “smart
person,” someone prepared to be an engaged world citizen, a productive worker,and a caring and compassionate friend and family member.
• The concept of emotional intelligence has made its way into the world’s consciousness, and a whole new way of thinking about education has emerged.
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• Regarding the present Indian education system, the PM said that "our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory.
There has to be overall personality development". Dec 25th 2014
• Focus is gradually now towards a more human and humane view of what education should be about.
• It is for this reason I believe that the growing interest in Emotional Intelligence and emotional literacy in schools and colleges is an important development, and one which we cannot afford to ignore.
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‘Emotional Intelligence’ and ‘emotional literacy’ are ideas that have leapt to prominence in education (as well as in business and elsewhere) over the last tenyears. Publications and courses now abound.
Todays Government feels it perfectly natural to issue advice on young people’s ‘emotional health and wellbeing’, and on the cultivation of ‘social, emotional andbehavioural skills.
It is impossible to be unaware of these pressures, and quite hard to be critical, or even sceptical, of them.
All meaningful relationships such as parent-child, teacher- student, between peers or colleagues etc., which are perceived as our strengths are usually based on dimensions of emotional intelligence.
Theories supported that if one has a good amount of emotional intelligence, the person will have a good ability to adjust and a special capacity to solve problems of daily life.
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Like Cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence is difficult to define.
Broadly speaking, EI addresses the emotional, personal, social and survival dimensions of intelligence which are often more important for daily functioning than the more traditional cognitive aspects of intelligence.
Emotional intelligence is concerned with understanding oneself and others, relating to people, and adapting to and coping with the immediate surroundings to be more successful in dealing with environmental demands.
Why do some people have better psychological well being than others? Why are some individuals more able to succeed in life than others? these questions commanded a thorough review of factors thought to determine general success in addition to success in maintaining positive mental and emotional health. It soon became clear that the key to determining and predicting success is not cognitive intelligence alone- many cognitively intelligence people flounder in life, while many less cognitively intelligence individuals succeed and prosper.
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Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence is a term coined by Daniel Goleman in his book in 1995.
The Harvard Business Review called emotional intelligence—which discounts IQ as the sole measure of one’s intelligence—
“a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea”
and chose his article “What Makes a Leader” as one of ten “must-read” articles from its pages.
Emotional Intelligence was named one of the 25 “Most Influential Business Management Books” by TIME Magazine.
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