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THE CONTEXT OF THE CONFERENCE
Why Social and Emotional Education
"Connecting information from different sources, taking on board new ideas, testing them through trial and error: adults use these skills everyday, and they’re all creative.
So it’s no wonder business leaders now rank creativity as the most-wanted skill in the working world. Millions of children will grow up to do jobs that don’t exist yet, so creativity will help them adapt and thrive in any future."
Citation from LEGO Foundation website
UNESCO’s recent publication 'Rethinking Learning' agrees that social-emotional learning is essential.
Here’s what they found:
"[...] students’ social and emotional competence not only predicts school success, but also predicts a range of important outcomes in late adolescence and adulthood, including high school graduation, postsecondary completion, employment, financial stability, physical health, and overall mental health and well-being."
In addition to confirming the role of SEL skills as important predictors for the career and life, a major Survey of Social and Emotional Skills carried out in 2021 by OECD shows that 15-year old students, irrespectively of their gender and social background report lower SEL skills than the 10-year olds. On almost every social and emotional competence measured, 10-year olds do better than the 15-year olds. Parents and teachers confirm that.
The adolescence is a period of difficult transitions when the family role decreases in the life of the young people and the SEL skills are challenged. That is why the role of the school is getting even more important and more efforts should be put in support of the adolescents’ SEL, along with the academic performance.
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