Creating conditions for social-emotional learning

An ecological framework

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ID4254401
AuthorsJohn L Foster (0000-0002-6034-4417, ’Education Policy, Organizations, and Leadership, University of Washington Seattle Campus: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, corresponding author), Lawrence Louis (Michigan State University), Elizabeth Winston (Highline Public School District, Seattle, Washington, USA), Elizabeth I Winston (Highline College)
Year2022
Volume61
Issue2
Pages224-235
Publication date2022-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Into Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00405841.2022.2036059
OpenAlexW4210839210
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited29

This article examines the ways in which racist structures negatively affect students’ social and emotional development and how social-emotional learning (SEL) may be a useful tool to push against racist structures to develop students socially and emotionally. We propose an ecological framework to examine how micro-, meso-, and macro-level structures influence students’ social and emotional development. Our framework is anchored on the juxtaposition of learning versus schooling. We examine what it means to practice SEL versus social-emotional schooling (SES). We argue learning is a holistic process contingent upon centering identity and community. Conversely, schooling is a process that seeks to conform students to ways of understanding that reify the status quo and hinder critical thinking. We identify the practices of SEL and SES by analyzing them at the classroom (micro), school building (meso), and school district level (macro). We argue all 3 levels must be leveraged to create the conditions conducive for SEL to permeate the school and disrupt racism in schools

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Developmental psychology · Ecological psychology · Ecological systems theory · Identity (music · Macro level · Pedagogy · Process (computing · Racism · Social change · Social ecological model · Social emotional learning · Sociology · Status quo · Critical Race Theory in Education · Early Childhood Education and Development · Ecology · Gender Studies · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Social Psychology

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