The vital connection between social-emotional learning and character education

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Dunkelblau ◽  
Maurice Elias
2013 ◽  
pp. 227-240
Author(s):  
Syamsul Hadi Syamsul Hadi

Abstrak:Proses pembelajaran anak tidak tergantung pada aspek inteligensi atau kemampuan kognitif saja, tetapi juga dipengaruhi oleh aspek lain seperti aspek perkembangan emosi dan sosial. Aspek emosi dan sosial ini sangat berpengaruh terhadap prilaku anak kepada dirinya, orang lain dan lingkungannya. Pada anak usia dini aspek sosial emosi ini dapat dikembangkan melalui pembelajaran sosial emosional. Dimana pembelajaran sosial emosional adalah proses mengembangkan keterampilan, sikap, dan nilai-nilai yang diperlukan untuk memperoleh kompetensi sosial dan emosional sebagai modal anak dalam berinteraksi dengan dirinya, orang lain dan lingkungan sekitar. Pembelajaran  sosial emosional ini dapat dijadikan sebagai awal dan dasar penanaman pendidikan karakter kepada anak usia dini. Ada empat kompetensi kunci pengembangan dalam aspek sosial emosional anak; self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, responsible decision making, dan relationship management. Keempat kompetensi ini penting dikembangkan sejak usia dini untuk membangun dan menanamkan keterampilan sosial anak. Karena dengan mengembangkan keempat aspek sosial emosional anak tersebut akan berimplikasi pada tertanamnya sifat-sifat baik/ karakter-karakter unggul pada diri anak dalam dunia sosial. Metode-metode seperti bermain, modeling, story telling, drama dan lainnya tepat digunakan untuk mengembangkan keempat keterampilan tersebut. Kata kunci: PAUD, pendidikan karakter, pembelajaran sosial emosionalAbstract:Children’s learning process does not depend only on the aspect of intelligence or cognitive abilities, but also influenced by other aspects such as emotional and social aspects of development. The emotional and social aspects have big influence on the child behaviortoward himself, others and the environment. In early childhood social emotional aspects can be developed through social emotional learning. Social emotional learning is the process of developing skills, attitudes, and values necessary to acquire social and emotional competence as a capital of children in interacting with himself, others and the environment. Emotional social learning can serve as the beginning and foundation in plantings character education to early childhood. There are four key competencies in social emotional development of children; self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, responsible decision making, and relationship management. These four competencies are important to be developed since early age to build and instill social skills of children. By developing the four social and emotional aspects of children, the good nature or excellent characters will be internalized within the children. Methods to be used in developing the four characters can be as follow: playing, modelling, story telling, drama, etc.Key words: early childhood, character education, social emotional learning


2021 ◽  
pp. 153450842098452
Author(s):  
Christopher L. Thomas ◽  
Staci M. Zolkoski ◽  
Sarah M. Sass

Educators and educational support staff are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of systematic efforts to support students’ social and emotional growth. Logically, the success of social-emotional learning programs depends upon the ability of educators to assess student’s ability to process and utilize social-emotional information and use data to guide programmatic revisions. Therefore, the purpose of the current examination was to provide evidence of the structural validity of the Social-Emotional Learning Scale (SELS), a freely available measure of social-emotional learning, within Grades 6 to 12. Students ( N = 289, 48% female, 43.35% male, 61% Caucasian) completed the SELS and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analyses of the SELS failed to support a multidimensional factor structure identified in prior investigations. The results of an exploratory factor analysis suggest a reduced 16-item version of the SELS captures a unidimensional social-emotional construct. Furthermore, our results provide evidence of the internal consistency and concurrent validity of the reduced-length version of the instrument. Our discussion highlights the implications of the findings to social and emotional learning educational efforts and promoting evidence-based practice.


Author(s):  
Dawn Anderson-Butcher ◽  
Samantha Bates ◽  
Anthony Amorose ◽  
Rebecca Wade-Mdivianian ◽  
Leeann Lower-Hoppe

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