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Mainstreaming and Advancing Social and Emotional Learning

October 2021

The Mainstreaming Social and Emotional Learning issue of the .ed Magazine is carefully curated to empower educational leaders to advance young learners’ social and emotional learning and development. This edition unpacks Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) strategies, challenges, approaches, models, and ideas for educators to deliver more impactful and effective SEL.

The .ed Magazine is an incisive, and thought-provoking issue-based quarterly digital publication — for transformative global educators — focussed on transforming education for human flourishing. The .ed Magazine brings insightful, articulate, well-researched, and unputdownable articles from leading global experts and practitioners to catalyze efforts of educators, school leaders, and institutions to unleash the potential of transformative education.

Editor

Guest Editor

Editorial Committee

Contributors

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Editor's Note

From the Editor's Desk: Focus on Social and Emotional Learning as a Foundational Literacy To Ensure Whole-Child Development

I believe, the missing element of foundational literacies across educational systems — listening, speaking, reading, and writing — has been Social and Emotional Learning/Literacy.

Guest Editorial

Guest Editorial: Role of Social-Emotional Learning in Staving Off Entropy

To embrace social-emotional learning is to imbue our societies with the skills and the will to continue our struggle to maintain community over atomization, meaning over cynicism, and purpose from pain.

Cover Story

SEL and Systemic Change: The Role of Educator Well-Being

“Without well teachers, we will not have healthy schools and successful students”

Framing a Vision for Effective Global Social and Emotional Learning

The extensive variety and diversity are valuable, as the variations reflect the values and ideas of those building and engaging in SEL efforts in diverse contexts around the world.

Featured Articles

Social and Emotional Learning – An Antidote for Bullying in the Classroom

Explicit integration of social and emotional learning offers an opportunity to transform education - not just in terms of its outcomes but also in terms of the individuals it can produce.

The Possibilities of Digital Play in Advancing Effective Social and Emotional Learning

Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of others, is an important aspect of social and emotional learning. It can be demonstrated and potentially cultivated through the opportunities afforded in digital play.

A Quest for Common Ground: Global Education and Social-Emotional Learning

SEL is about mindfulness and developing a consciousness in regards to one’s emotional well-being as well as to the planet’s well-being.

Opinion

Social-Emotional Learning — An Essential Vehicle to Promote Inclusive Education

Authentic social-emotional learning can benefit all students, as it necessitates the inclusion of students of all forms of diversity, especially students with disabilities, to meet the objectives outlined within this definition of SEL.

The Critical Role of School Leaders in Implementing Social and Emotional Learning

School leaders are to be encouraged to expand and strengthen their efforts to implement SEL. Supporting and facilitating SEL must be seen as a very valuable and important aspect of their leadership role.

Youth Voice

How to implement Social and Emotional Learning that Strengthens Global Citizenship Education?

While much of the extant research highlights the value of SEL in driving students’ individual development and self-empowerment, what remains under-explored though is the potential of SEL in advancing an education which aims at the transformation of the wider society.

Fostering Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration to Implement Social-Emotional Learning in Schools

Challenges facing countries and different schools may vary widely, bringing in a set of roadblocks in implementing SEL programs.

Research

Global Champions

Transformative Pedagogy

Building Social-Emotional Learning Skills in Early Years through Community Connections

A core component of the generic SEL programs and focused educational experiences has been empathy.

ASPIRE to Safe and Effective Social-Emotional Learning

Evidence suggests that ASPIRE can make all the difference both to students’ experience of SEL and the perspectives and competencies they acquire.

Professional Development

The Neuro-Science Behind How Cooperative Learning Augments Social-Emotional Learning Skills

Students who participate in successful cooperative group learning throughout their education and develop PFC networks with the full array of executive functions and emotional control networks will have the 21st-century skillsets — the thinking and behaviors defined as executive functions, and the cognitive, social, and emotional behaviors.

Reviews

Global Events

Education News

A First Global Survey on Social and Emotional Skills

This work is a start and covers a range of outcomes which research shows are highly predictive for labor-market and social success, such as open-mindedness (including curiosity and creativity), task performance (including responsibility, self-control, and persistence), sociability and assertiveness, collaboration as well as stress resistance and emotional control.

News

Letter to the editor

This issue of the .ed Magazine is a digital/online quarterly issue-based publication in English by the Global Citizenship Foundation. You may reach the publisher by mail via Global Citizenship Foundation, 139, Sector-13, Sonipat, Haryana, India 131001