Emotional Education in Elementary Schools: A systematic review from 2015 to 2017

Abstract

This article presents a literature review of emotional education in elementary schools. The topic in question is considered of utmost importance. To this end, articles published on the Web of Science (WOS) during the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. The 37 selected articles, after cleaning up the data, were classified by subject for analysis according to whether they addressed the students or the teachers. 31 of the earmarked documents investigated students and 8 teachers. For the student documents, the articles were classified according to the role that emotional education played: as an end in itself, 18 articles, as a means, 12, and together with other variables, 4 documents. The articles intended for teachers focus on the initial training, as well as on the ongoing training, getting the results of the experience of these and of the development of emotional education in the classroom.

Keywords

• emotions, emotional intelligence, educational system, literature review, state of the art