(1833)TEACHERS’ EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENTMANAGEMENT – NECESSITY OF THE NEW AGE

摘要

Popularization of emotional intelligence in the late 90’s of the previous century and exponentialdevelopment of this discipline has resulted in numerous scientific discoveries, development of newfields, appearance of an insight into spiritual intelligence, renewed popularity of social intelligence etc.Studies of application of emotional intelligence in different fields, such as leadership, partner relations,parenthood, job or emotional intelligence of entire teams and organizations, has led up to theknowledge of the importance of this discipline in education, both for the success of education anddevelopment of emotionally intelligent society. This direction of development of the applied discipline:emotional intelligence in education, although extremely young, becomes rather propulsive. Thus,today there are 74,200 results on Google browser for internet precise search of the term "emotionallyintelligent teacher", and 70,100 for "emotionally intelligent school" (measured on November the 28th,2011).This paper, on one hand, provides an overview of different scientific studies on positive impact ofemotional intelligence on many aspects of teachers’ life and work: prevention of professionalcombustion, stress prevention, creation of better climate and culture of learning, better professionalresults, as well as better satisfaction with job and mental and physical health. Furthermore, the paperarguments from which professional reasons teachers need high coefficient of emotional intelligence,as well as which circumstances affect the increase of the need for developing their emotionalintelligence, which are imposed by new, global, digital and knowledge-based society. The paper paysspecial attention to emotional numbness of new generations as one of the special needs fordevelopment of emotional intelligence of teaching staff in education: absence of the family inemotional upbringing of children, as well as the possible negative impact of new media on their propersocialization – the phenomenon of “psychological distance” with so-called “digital natives”. Growingneed for leadership competences of employees in education only increases this need, which is alsodiscussed in this paper.On the other hand, the paper concretizes how teachers’ emotional intelligence is manifested and, inaddition, shows a short review of some interesting examples from the practice of developing emotionalliteracy in education. Entire paper, actually, by consulting different circumstances and presenting frominformational, sociological, managerial, pedagogical and psychological aspects – and primarily startingfrom the knowledge that emotional intelligence can be developed and its techniques learnedthroughout life – points to the necessity of systemic planning and managing emotional intelligence ofpresent and future teachers’ generations, in order to create a developed, stable, healthy andcontemporary society.