EXPERIMENTAL & ANALYTICAL STUDY ON EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL LITERACY PROGRAMME THROUGH EMOTIONAL AWARENESS ON SOCIAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY GRADE CHILDREN (3RD & 4TH STANDARD) STUDENTS

Abstract

Education in school have strong impact on social, emotional development along with the development of academic skills. Relationships & emotional process has strong impact on how & what we learn. Emotional awareness is the ability to recognise and make sense of not just your own emotions, but also those of others. It is also known as emotional Intelligence. Our school curriculum lacks the skill development for the emotional awareness the study was undertaken to develop emotional awareness at earlier age of schooling, through emotional literacy program. It was rd th intended to evaluate the effect of emotional literacy training on emotional awareness in primary grade children (3 & 4 grade). There were total 233 (55.90%) male participants out of total 417 participants of were total 184 (44.10%) females' participants. They were given fortnightly, an hourly session (eight weeks i.e. 4 sessions), of emotional literacy program through various activities & games. The students were improved in ability to differentiate emotions, Hindi medium students were better in ability of children to verbally share the emotions among them(p =0.000). The open expression of emotions, so the bodily awareness of different emptions showed signicant improvement. Emotional intelligence is a tool used by man to master or conduct his own behaviours, to adjust him in the environment around. The group dynamics developed through games, many students reported inclusive feelings. The inclusion of emotional literacy program in regular curriculum may benet children in developing social competencies & further enhancing the better skills for integrated social development.