Social and Emotional Learning in the Mediterranean

Cross Cultural Perspectives and Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44450-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Comparative Education and the Mediterranean Region

The rapid social, economic and technological changes taking place in the world today have led to the rise of social and emotional learning (SEL) as an essential requirement in positive human development and meaningful education. SEL competencies such as self-awareness, emotional regulation, problem solving, collaboration, understanding and empathising with others, embracing diversity and conflict resolution, are key 21st century competences.


The turbulences taking place in the Mediterranean region such as civil strife, violence, socio-economic hardship, forced displacement, human trafficking and child abuse, have directed academics’, policy makers' and practitioners’ interest towards SEL. SEL became an innovative avenue in preventing and addressing some of the main challenges being faced by countries in the Mediterranean basin in the healthy development and quality education of children and young people.

Social and Emotional Learning in the Mediterranean: Cross Cultural Perspectives and Approaches is the first publication of this kind to explore how the Mediterranean region is seeking to address the issues and challenges in the promotion and implementation of SEL. It is an attempt to raise awareness on the SEL policies, frameworks and practices taking place in the Mediterranean region, to share and celebrate good practices, and to critically reflect on the challenges faced in the effective implementation of SEL in the region, with recommendations for policy, interventions and research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cefai, Carmel

Regester, Dominic

Akoury Dirani, Leyla

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor’s Foreword

Ronald G. Sultana

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction

1 Social and Emotional Learning across the Mediterranean

Carmel Cefai, Dominic Regester and Leyla Akoury Dirani

PART 2: National Policies, Curricula and Frameworks

2 “I Want Greeks to Be Odysseus …”

Maria Poulou

3 Social and Emotional Education in Maltese Schools

Carmel Cefai

4 Social and Emotional Learning in the School System in Cyprus

Maria Kalli

5 Psychosocial Skills and Holistic Education in the French Educational Context

Katia Terriot and Emmanuelle Vignoli

6 Social and Emotional Learning in Palestinian K-12 Schools

Anwar Hussein-Abdel Razeq

7 Social and Emotional Learning in the New Tunisian Curriculum

Amor Ouelbani

PART 3: Programmes and Interventions

8 An Integrated Social and Emotional Learning Framework for Lebanese Schools

Claudine Aziz, Nahla Harb, Samar El Ahmadieh, Wael Kazan and Yvonne El Feghaly

9 Safe and Enabling Learning Environments in Lebanon

Amina Kleit and Rémie Rhayem

10 Mental Health Promotion in the Early Years: Case Studies from Italy

Valeria Cavioni

11 Examining 21st Century Student Outcomes in Teacher Education Programmes in Higher Education Reform in Egypt

Nagwa Megahed and Gihan Osman

12 The SOYAÇ Approach with Street Involved Children and Young People in Turkey: Social and Emotional Learning in Practice

Özden Bademci

13 The Assessment of Vulnerable Children’s Social-Emotional Skills in MENAT

Carly Tubbs Dolan and Roxane Caires

PART 4: Conclusion

14 Epilogue

Marc Brackett

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carmel Cefai, PhD, FBPS, is the director of the Centre for Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health, and Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Malta. He has published extensively in the area of resilience and social-emotional learning, including Mental Health Promotion in Schools (Sense Publishers, 2017).

Dominic Regester is programme director at Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria, responsible for designing and implementing programmes on education, conservation and societies of the future. He is on the Executive Committee for Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills.

Leyla Akoury Dirani, PhD, is a child and adolescent psychologist and associate professor of psychiatry at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Her research and her teaching encompass child development, child psychopathology, and parenting.