Emotional Education: A Selective Literature Review and an Emerging Model

This paper presents the concept of emotional education (EE) as one of the major challenges to the field of formal education. We posit that the main confusion about and lack of promotion of EE in most formal education settings stems from the lack of a coherent, consistent model that allows the asking of questions and that applies the concept in research and practice. We review the literature on EE and present new perspectives from which a new developmental model emerges, one that may help propel both research and educational practice in various settings.