When talking to teachers, some consider emotional education not to be part of their role or responsibity . Parents should teach their kids this. My task is to teach my subject. Of course, this is a simplification, however, teachers teach children and not subjects, and therefore emotional education is part of a childs education and is deserving of greater consideration and application. This apparentlycontraversial topic is introduced by two interviews with educational professionals , who give an  overview of  the importance of emotional education and the urgency to use it within the scholastic system: an educational psychologist – Sian Templeton from University of Gloucestershire (UK), and a school principle, Laura Bonelli, from Viterbo (Italy).

Didactics of Emotions: a short introduction

The Didactics of Emotions is the approach and methodology used for emotional education in Eumoschool. To have an insight of what it is , how it came to life and how it works, here is an interview with its original developers from the Italian Emotional Training Centre.