1st Edition

International Approaches to Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in Schools A Framework for Developing Teaching Strategy

Edited By Markus Talvio, Kirsti Lonka Copyright 2022
262 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the importance of social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools to foster supportive environments and good relationships. It presents research from nine different countries with discussion of how teachers, student teachers and policymakers can ensure successful SEL at school. The book stresses the importance of social and emotional learning to allow students to become... Read more

List of contributors

Foreword

Neil Humphrey

Introduction

Markus Talvio, Kirsti Lonka

Part 1: The implementation process of social and emotional learning in the school context

1. Embracing ‘the stranger’ in us: heterogeneity and ambivalent ways of being in classrooms

Anna. P. Rainio, Kaisu Mälkki, Marita Mäkinen

2. Practitioner adaptations of a social and emotional learning curriculum in international contexts

Matthew Kiefer, Kimberly Haynes, Kimberly Kasper, Ariel Dickson

3. Examining the effective implementation of a social and emotional learning program in elementary schools in South East Europe

Milos Stojanovic, Wadih Maalouf, Ziad El-Khatib

Part 2: Social and emotional learning and personal and professional development

4. Findings of the implementation of the Universal Prevention Curricula (UPC) in Peru

Fernando Salazar, Inés V. Bustamante

5. Social and emotional learning as part of professional development in initial teacher education

Marlies Matischek-Jauk, Hannelore Reicher

6. Teachers' well-being, social and emotional competences, and reflective teaching – a teacher's continuous training model for professional development and well-being

Marco Ferreira

7. The art-therapy collage technique as a tool for teachers’ professional reflection

Jana Kouřilová, Yvona Mazehóová. Luboš Krninský

8. Social and emotional learning: a key component of the International Standards on Drug Use Prevention and Sustainable Development

Wadih Maalouf, Hanna Heikkila, Milos Stojanovic, Elizabeth Mattfeld, Giovanna Campello

Part 3: Perspectives on social and emotional learning in teacher education

9. Significant in life: core learning outcomes of a social and emotional course in physical education teacher education

Tommi Mäkinen, Emma Kostiainen, Ulla Klemola

10. Fostering the development of social and emotional competencies through expressive production

Alena Nohavová, Yvona Mazehóová, Iva Stuchlíková 

11. The challenge of sustained behavioural change – the development of teachers' social and emotional learning during and after a Lions Quest workshop

Markus Talvio, Lauri Hietajärvi, Taru Lintunen

Epilogue: towards an integrative view of social and emotional learning 

Kirsti Lonka, Markus Talvio

Kirsti Lonka, Markus Talvio

Biography

Markus Talvio is Adjunct Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Helsinki.

Kirsti Lonka is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Helsinki.