Emotional Intelligence: Integral Education for the citizenship exercise

Abstract

This article studies Emotional Intelligence as a pillar of pedagogical practices that promote the integral training of students, beyond content, in order to prepare them for the exercise of citizenship. It was based on a qualitative and bibliographic methodology, whose textual selection criterion was based on the thematic relevance of articles, especially on the SciELO platform, in addition to books by authors specialized in the field. The objective is to conceptualize Emotional Intelligence, justify the urgency of its presence in the current scenario, by verifyingthe numbers of school-age children and young people who have been affected by various psychosomatic diseases and to emphasize the need of a teaching that is committed with developing socioemotional skills. In this way, theresearch contributes for the school to be an agent of transformation through the appropriation of socioemotional training, in order to reframe it’s social role and provide preventive action to the incidence of psychosomatic diseases in young people and adults in Brazil.