Behavioral difficulties pupils into the mainstream school population and wider community as a who... more Behavioral difficulties pupils into the mainstream school population and wider community as a whole. This will be achieved through examining the theory and literature concerned in these areas as well as the role leadership plays in marrying these two potential spheres of interest. Although there will naturally be a consideration of my own Emotional Intelligence as practitioner and therefore leader in the classroom, the prime focus will be to explore Trait Emotional Intelligence as a potential barrier or antecedent to integration into the school population by SEN/SEBD pupils, particularly focusing on the issue of Trait Emotional Intelligence and its relationship with achievement, peer relations, attendance and deviant behavior. The essay will start with a clarification of what Emotional Intelligence is and its current emergent role in business and to a lesser extent educational leadership. A discussion of the importance of SEN/SEBD student inclusion as a more preferable model than segregation will frame why this work has been undertaken. This will then be followed by a consideration of the classroom environment through the lens of structuration theory and in order to synthesize these two areas the essay will present a critique of Callahan's
The following dissertation outlines the research process conducted into the effects of critical p... more The following dissertation outlines the research process conducted into the effects of critical pedagogy on students' ability to think critically. The research was carried out during June 2012 -July 2012 in an inner city secondary school. The students, through the critical pedagogical methods of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, dialectically discussed the concept of 'truth'. The following work discusses the rationale for such an investigation, the findings of the research and the future implications in light of the research.
Behavioral difficulties pupils into the mainstream school population and wider community as a who... more Behavioral difficulties pupils into the mainstream school population and wider community as a whole. This will be achieved through examining the theory and literature concerned in these areas as well as the role leadership plays in marrying these two potential spheres of interest. Although there will naturally be a consideration of my own Emotional Intelligence as practitioner and therefore leader in the classroom, the prime focus will be to explore Trait Emotional Intelligence as a potential barrier or antecedent to integration into the school population by SEN/SEBD pupils, particularly focusing on the issue of Trait Emotional Intelligence and its relationship with achievement, peer relations, attendance and deviant behavior. The essay will start with a clarification of what Emotional Intelligence is and its current emergent role in business and to a lesser extent educational leadership. A discussion of the importance of SEN/SEBD student inclusion as a more preferable model than segregation will frame why this work has been undertaken. This will then be followed by a consideration of the classroom environment through the lens of structuration theory and in order to synthesize these two areas the essay will present a critique of Callahan's
The following dissertation outlines the research process conducted into the effects of critical p... more The following dissertation outlines the research process conducted into the effects of critical pedagogy on students' ability to think critically. The research was carried out during June 2012 -July 2012 in an inner city secondary school. The students, through the critical pedagogical methods of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, dialectically discussed the concept of 'truth'. The following work discusses the rationale for such an investigation, the findings of the research and the future implications in light of the research.
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