Emotional Intelligence and Its Role in the Process of Informing How Effective School Leaders Lead in Urban Elementary K-5 Schools.
Location
Room 218
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Symposium
Abstract
This paper explores how emotional intelligence competencies effect urban educational leadership, hence, urban principal's decision-making and success. Researchers (Sternberg, 1985; Salovey and Mayer, 1990, 1997; Gardner, 1993; Goleman, 1995, 1998, 2006; Goleman, 2002) have provided new insights into the correlation between emotional and social intelligence competencies related to highly effective urban leadership. Interested in how urban leaders' emotional intelligence inform their leadership style, and leadership effectiveness, I have chosen to use Salovey and Mayer's, 1997 Emotional Intelligence Ability Model which views emotional intelligence as an actual domain of intelligence composed of specific emotional and mental abilities, instead of a combination of emotional abilities which rely heavily on social and motivation skills addressed in the popular mixed-model created by Harvard psychologist Daniel Goleman.
Keywords
K-5 educational leadership, Leadership style, Emotional intelligence, Emotions
Recommended Citation
Kalu-Thompson, Marissa, "Emotional Intelligence and Its Role in the Process of Informing How Effective School Leaders Lead in Urban Elementary K-5 Schools." (2014). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 30.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2014/2014/30
Proposal
Emotional Intelligence and Its Role in the Process of Informing How Effective School Leaders Lead in Urban Elementary K-5 Schools.
Room 218
This paper explores how emotional intelligence competencies effect urban educational leadership, hence, urban principal's decision-making and success. Researchers (Sternberg, 1985; Salovey and Mayer, 1990, 1997; Gardner, 1993; Goleman, 1995, 1998, 2006; Goleman, 2002) have provided new insights into the correlation between emotional and social intelligence competencies related to highly effective urban leadership. Interested in how urban leaders' emotional intelligence inform their leadership style, and leadership effectiveness, I have chosen to use Salovey and Mayer's, 1997 Emotional Intelligence Ability Model which views emotional intelligence as an actual domain of intelligence composed of specific emotional and mental abilities, instead of a combination of emotional abilities which rely heavily on social and motivation skills addressed in the popular mixed-model created by Harvard psychologist Daniel Goleman.
