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Could universities play a bigger role in staving off the ‘great resignation’ in education? Podcast
According to Australian emotional intelligence expert Dr Ben Palmer, Chief Executive of Genos International, universities could play an important role in securing the the sector's future by offering units in emotional intelligence in their initial teacher education courses.
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As much as band-aids are sometimes needed, emotional intelligence courses for teachers are nothing more than band-aids. The education system itself (and its focus on the continuous measuring of cognitive academic success) is driving the great resignation wave, not teachers’ possible lack of emotional intelligence. If we want to reduce the wave of resignations, we might want to start there: https://insidestory.org.au/dear-ms-plibersek/