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Created: July 11, 2004
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Latest Update: July 11, 2004
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Shared Reading on Emotional Intelligence
By The Self Esteem Advisory Service in the UK

1. Introduction Why I chose to share this reading.
2. Focus: Main point of this reading.
3. Reading Full identification of source for reading AND excerpt.
4. Concepts: Concepts and Key Words.
5. Discussion Discussion questions.
6. Conceptual Linking to Substantive Courses What this has to do with our class.

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Introduction:

I came across this service when I was preparing materials on self esteem for our Love 1A class. They provide workshops for teachers and emphasize building strong self esteem, coping with bullies, and eventually they began to speak of emotional intelligence. I'm not up to date on all their materials, but as I updated their URL, I discovered their materials advertising workshops for major corporations and schools to train their people in "emotional intelligence." I downloaded and revised for easier reading a couple of their files. In this shared reading I'd like you to try to understand the theory of emotional intelligence and how it applies in the Naked Space. Where they are suggesting workshops for sale, I'll be asking you to draw on our theoretical resources to actually use emotional intelligence to improve our exhibits and discourse.

Focus:

• I want you to come away from this shared reading realizing that there's a lot more to intelligence than IQ tests. Emotional intelligence is about your IQ when it comes to interpersonal relationships, of which our families, communities, and enterprises all exist.

Concepts and Key Words:

• emotional intelligence - could be a score if it's measured like IQ. Check out the products they offer to test your employees, students, workers, whatever to determine their emotional intelligence. Those are paper and pencil tests, folks. Which aren't half bad if they're used appropriately. In this country, they rarely are.
• emotional intelligence - this is the intelligence or ability we exhibit in being aware of and sensitive to Others in interacting interpersonally.
• intrapersonal intelligence - the intelligence or ability to relate the many bits and pieces of our own intelligence to make sense of our lives as a whole - kind of like being able to function effectively within our apperceptive mass. See also Emotional Intelligence for further definition.
• interpersonal intelligence - the inteligence or ability we exhibit to relate in illocutionaryfashion, as well as in instrumental and governance discourse with others and to fashion and work within interpersonal relations

Reading:

• Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional Intelligence Profiling

Discussion Questions:

1. How?

   Things to be considered in answer.

2. Why?

   Things to be considered in answer.

3. Do you think?

Conceptual Linking to Substantive Courses:

• Agencies:
  Sample linking: Ways in which underlying assumptions of assimilation affect services offered and clients' ability to access and use those services.

• Criminal Justice:
  Sample linking: Ways in which some groups are underrepresented in the unstated assumptions of our theories.

• Law:
  Sample linking: Extent to which laws are made on the assumption that we are all essentially assimilated to the dominant culture.

• Moot Court:
  Sample linking: Ways in which to make the claim of non-assimilation heard.

• Women in Poverty:
  Sample linking: The culture of poverty and assimilation.

• Race, Gender, Class:
  Sample linking: The extent to which silence has been imposed by these affiliations so that domination and discrimination have entered our unstated assumptions in interpersonal relations and the structural context arising from them.

• Religion:
  Sample linking: