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In this analysis, Fran Abrams questions the growth of

lessons in emotional intelligence, the idea that we can teach children to manage

their emotions, to empathise and even to be happy.

In this week's analysis we're going to be going off our core curriculum.

So you'll need to be sitting comfortably and to listen carefully.

Close your eyes if you want to. Okay, welcome.

My name is Dave Greer.

And a song to do you, we are going to be doing a cool fire.

That is, working with the fire of your energy but in a really cool way.

Dave Reed's taking a workshop with a group of primary school pupils in Essex.

That's it.

As you hear that's easy, you just start to make

a little bit more arms. Let's start to move. That's brilliant. Got the whole

class full of children here now jumping up and down. And on the on the screen at the front of the room we've got exhortations

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