EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND TEACHER‟S CHANGING ROLES
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND TEACHER‟S CHANGING ROLES

Summary/Abstract: In a society in which people tend to grow apart, where violence, selfishness and uncontrolled emotions seem to be increasing, educators have to face new challenges. Due to the breakthrough in technology and communication, the teacher’s roles seem to undergo even more changes in the future. In the past decade, emotional intelligence has come to be considered one of the main components of leadership effectiveness in many different contexts, including the educational ones and above all that of classroom management. The teacher no longer has a central role in conveying the information, he is a manager in a learner-centered educational process and his “soft skills” seem to be even more important than his “hard skills”. Therefore, the present article aims at examining the relationship among emotional intelligence, the teacher’s personality and his new roles as an effective leader in order to provide a satisfactory educational act beneficial for both his students and the society they live in.

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