Written by Richard Evans, Independent Thinking on Emotional Literacy:
A passport to increased confidence, engagement and learning shares an
approach that will help educators boost their pupils' emotional
literacy, with the broader aim of nurturing a more grounded, engaged and
intrinsically motivated child.
Foreword by Ian Gilbert.
Do teachers truly understand their pupils? And do the pupils themselves
really understand their own needs?
In Independent Thinking on Emotional Literacy, Richard Evans reminds
every school educator that behind every child is a set of circumstances
so entwined - and within them a set of emotions so involved - that to
ignore them is to be complicit in any educational failings experienced
by that child.
Richard equips educators with a collaborative 'passport' template
designed to improve pupils' emotional literacy and promote discussion of
the often-unspoken issues that prevent children from making progress at
school. It enables staff to steer young people to greater emotional
understanding of themselves, so that they can better manage their route
through the school system.
Furthermore, Richard provides a detailed tutorial as he walks you
through the subtleties and wide-ranging possibilities of its use. Colour
copies of the passport are also made available for free download as a
complimentary feature of the book.
If the passport is aimed at anyone, adult or child, it's those not
altogether happy with the system; those not convinced it provides as
much breadth and meaning as it could; and who sense that education is as
much about the acquisition of self-knowledge as it is about that of
knowledge per se.
Ultimately, the result of the enterprise is deeper understanding -
whether it's of the girl who falls asleep at the back, the boy who needs
constant support, or those pupils who need extra careful attention at
parents' evening.
Suitable for all educators in both primary and secondary settings.
