EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT AS A NECESSARY EDUCATIONAL OUTCOME OF THE NEW UKRAINIAN SCHOOL
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15330/obrii.51.2.20-26Keywords:
development of emotional intelligence, younger student, New Ukrainian School, an emotional-valuable component of educational contentAbstract
The article presents an analysis of the New Ukrainian School possibilities in terms of its influence on the development of students' emotional intelligence. Directions of its development have been set following the requirements of the personality-oriented approach focused on competence, communication and action, which are declared in the State Standard of General Initial Education as essential orientation points for renewing the content of education.
The singularity of personality-oriented education is focusing on creating circumstances for students' development through internal personality changes by shaping individual life experience in various fields of activity.
The developed life competencies are the predictable results of the competency approach implementation in shaping emotional intelligence in elementary school. These are the abilities to learn guided by one's intrinsic motivation and to efficiently communicate in various types of activities in real and virtual space. This kind of approach shapes one's social and cultural skills, awareness in the field of health protection and the knowledge how to influence one's own and other people's emotions to establish an effective partnership or entrepreneurship based on leadership skills.
The expected results of the action approach are the ability to acquire knowledge in the process of independent educational activity by shaping the habits of efficient cooperation with other people.
The communicative approach, declared in the concept of the New Ukrainian School as one of the essential requirement for the implementation of educational content, focuses on shaping students' ability to use language effectively in the cognitive process and communication in order to shape the necessary life experiences of exchanging information, viewpoints, emotions and feelings during interpersonal interaction.
The characteristics of the organization of integrated education for the development of emotional intelligence of younger students were analysed. The article specifies and defines the emotional part of the content in the educational areas of the primary school.
