Overview
Social and emotional learning needs to be an integral part of children's education in conjunction with linguistic, mathematical, aesthetic, kinesthetic, and ethical learning. In this innovative volume, leading national experts describe the range of programs and perspectives that teachers, counselors, and administrators can use to promote social-emotional education in today's middle schools.
This book will also serve as a useful guide for educators providing concrete strategies, curricular-based programs, and perspectives that can be integrated into school life-inside and outside the classroom. Chapters focus on the importance of comprehensive and integrative programs as well as conflict resolution, self-esteem, and appropriate behavior in the classroom including how educators, themselves, can develop in these areas.
Audience
Audience: Courses in child and adolescent psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, philosophy of education, and curriculum theory; middle school teachers, counselors, administrators, and informed parents.
The premier volume in the new Series on Social Emotional Learning!
Educating Minds and Hearts: Social Emotional Learning and the Passage into Adolescence
This volume reflects the most sophisticated thinking about social and emotional development...Anyone concerned about the development of youth today will be instructed by these pages...
From the Foreword
"The Series on Social Emotional Learning from Teachers College Press has become the definitive source for the field, defining sound practice in education for emotional intelligence."
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
"This book synthesizes our knowledge of adolescent development with the what, why, and how of social learning, opening a window on the processes of the mind and heart...A must for teachers!"
Ann Lieberman, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
"In this new series from Teachers College Press, the editors have gathered together the world's experts to discuss ways in which to incorporate this new kind of learning into the classroom."
Peter Salovey, Yale University
"Educating Minds and Hearts is a welcome reminder to all of us that teaching and learning involve much more than performance on standardized tests. This book provides theoretical context, lessons learned, and pictures of programs that pay attention to the development of the whole student in schools across the country."
Paula Evans, Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Awarded an Outstanding Academic Book Award for 1999 by the American Library Association's Choice