Promoting Emotional Literacy: Emotional Literacy Improves and Increases Your Life Chances

Peter Sharp, an Educational Psychologist, explains how Daniel Goleman's best selling book focused his interest on the idea of emotional literacy; how he found that interest was shared by Southampton's Education Services Chief Inspector and that, as a result of this, emotional literacy became one of the Authority's priorities. The wide range of initiatives currently taking place in Southampton are described as the broad way in which the concerns of emotional literacy are interpreted. The Southampton approach has already created interest among other LEAs and there are plans to produce supportive materials. The paper concludes by suggesting the way in which schools might start work in this area.     

CURRICULUM‐PROPOSAL FOR THE INTEGRATION OF INFORMATICS INTO ENGINEERING PROGRAMMES OFFERED AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

As a contribution to the narrowing of the technological and economic gap between developing and developed countries, the author has proposed and designed a three‐to four‐semester curriculum intended to integrate informatics into engineering course‐programmes in the universities of developing countries. The curriculum in question, the implementation of which in a number of universities would be a contribution of the Federal Republic of Germany to university training in developing countries, was presented at an international workshop held at the University of Harare (Zimbabwe) entitled, “Integration of Computer Science into Engineering Education in Africa”. It includes a detailed statement of the objectives of the curriculum, the subject matter to be covered, and the teaching facilities required.     

Perspectives on Measurement Instruction

How do teachers obtain assessment information? Should our courses emphasize less formal assessment methods rather than formal methods? What nontraditional assessment topics should be added to our courses?     

Mask-making as identity project in a high school English class: a case study

This study reports on the composing process of one student, Peta (a pseudonym), as he reflects on a significant composition he produced during a unit on identity in a 12th‐grade English class in a U. S. high school. The unit was the first thematic exploration of the year for the students and was designed to help them think about themselves as readers, writers, and individuals. The teacher's goal was to have students' engagements with literary and artistic texts serve as vehicles for developing better understandings of themselves. The study demonstrates how students' engagement with more ‘traditional’ artefacts is essentially an example of multimodality and evidences why teachers and researchers should see such work as part of the long tradition of creativity within English. It also demonstrates how such an apparently ‘traditional’ artistic approach in fact covers the same territory as that of the digital revolution, that is that multimodal ‘tools’ engage all the cultural resources of students from their domestic, community and school settings, in contrast with much typical school activity that is perceived as pointless and tedious.