Emotional literacy is a teaching-learning process, which seeks to educate an individual emotionally, while in a school environment. It is a method in which, in addition to the traditional teaching areas, the emotions and feelings of the students are included, allowing them to choose an optimal process of development of the mental and emotional structures, as one of the essential focuses for development. of their own people and of society. In addition to literacy, it can be found emotional education, where emotional skills are taught, with the proportion of theoretical tools and a follow-up during the staging of these.
The main objective of emotional literacy is to prepare individuals in terms of emotional competencies. The secondary objectives, with more specific points, range from identifying cases of poor performance in the emotional area and classifying emotions, to regulating emotionality and developing tolerance to the various frustrations that arise from day to day. Experts like Sambrano recommend that literacy begins in the early stages of life; Therefore, it is necessary that future parents and teachers are educated in the field, so that they can provide emotional support to the infants who will be under their care.
When it is time to design the structure of emotion training programs, it is important for the person in charge to carry out an introspection, in which he is able to determine points such as: the ability to collect his own feelings and those outlined by others, the control that one has over squeezed impulses, empathy, the ability to recognize problematic situations and find peaceful and fair solutions for them, as well as the level of cooperation that one has when participating in group work.
