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Comment: How do social and emotional conditions affect learning? (This, of course, is just as much the case for higher education, workplace learning, or informal learning in communities and personal life.)

What they say is right – “If the mind is calm it is conducive to learning”. So when students or learners or employees are in the right frame of mind, the absorption of knowledge happens faster and is more substantial and result oriented. If a child is given a safe environment, he/she thrives. Hence, classrooms that include SEL are organized around the principles of respect, kindness, and empathy.

Make an Update: Dorothy Espelage has taken just one area – bullying at school – where she has used the methods of educational psychology to explore the social-emotional conditions of learning. Take an area of socio-behavioral learning interest or concern to you. What does the evidence tell? What are the main concepts we need to interpret the evidence?

SEL (Social-emotional learning) can be divided into 3 main concepts – Self regulation, Perspective taking & Emotion management. They focus on principles of kindness, respect and empathy. One of the area that interests me is “How to manage emotions?”. Evidence shows that children who undergo SEL are less disruptive in behaviours and have high test scores, which is just fascinating.