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uncritical acceptance of the work of Boyatzis (e.g. 2001), Goleman (1996), and Goleman,Boytzis & McKee (2002) whose ideas are presented as though they were fact. As indicatedearlier, critiques of such policies are now beginning to emerge (Burton, 2008; Ecclestone andHayes, 2008)"Of course, people differ in their abilities in each of these domains [Salovey’sextrapolation of Gardner’s theories]; some of us may be quite adept at handling, say, ourown anxiety, but relatively inept at soothing someone else’s upsets. The underlying basisfor our level of ability is, no doubt, neural, but as we will see, the brain is remarkablyplastic, constantly learning. Lapses in emotional skills can be remedied: to a great extenteach of these domains represents a body of habit and response that, with the right effort,can be improved on." (Goleman, 2001 p.44)In the emotional intelligence project, exemplified here, there is a clear presentation of the self asa professional in need of activity in the four domains of emotional intelligence:"self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management."(Goleman, Boyatzis, & Mckee, 2002 p. 30)Emotionally intelligent schools may be nice places to work and learn but they can only be calledschools if they impact as much on matters of the head as on matters of the gut. Remainingoperational within the affective components of a self alone is likely to cause ineffectiveness inits other constituent parts. Indeed, as was referred to in the introduction, phenomenologistswould argue that it is in the acceptance of the complexity of a self that we can begin tounderstand the ‘moments’ that combine to make a ‘whole’.A response to this might well be that teachers simply do not have the time or the energy to adoptthe philosophical attitude so as to excavate themselves in order to understand the fullness of theirbeing or their potential. This, in turn, may explain why schools can often seem intellectuallybankrupt and why ‘stretch and challenge’ have to be made mandatory rather than being naturallyorganic. The point is, however, that as a professionally-detached observer of the phenomena of64Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)