Abstract:
Emotional intelligence is a relatively new concept. Hence, it appears crucial to investigate its
short-term and long-term effect on educational process. The primary aim of this study is to
identify how teaching emotional intelligence affects the emotional competence of social
pedagogue students by measuring their levels of emotional intelligence before and after
training. For this, the Hall Emotional Intelligence Test was used. The focus lies on these
aspects of emotional intelligence (emotional competencies): Emotional Awareness, Managing
your Emotions, Self-motivation, Empathy, and Managing the Emotions of Other People. The results
demonstrate a substantial improvement in all these measures. The present findings may be
valuable for further research on emotional intelligence in education. In addition, the paper
proves that raising teacher’s emotional intelligence is beneficial to teaching and learning
