{"id":135480,"date":"2021-09-20T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=135480"},"modified":"2021-09-21T18:11:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:41:37","slug":"empathy-through-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/empathy-through-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Empathy through Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Synopsis:\u00a0<\/strong>Social and Emotional Learning is not fluff; it is an important goal in education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article highlights the importance of <strong>Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)<\/strong> as an important tool of education. India&#8217;s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nep-and-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Education Policy<\/a> also highlights its importance in children&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is SEL?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It forms the <strong>foundation of human development,<\/strong> for building healthy relationships, academic learning, manages emotions and much more things more effectively. The following are the key elements of SEL:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Empathy: <\/strong>It is the ability to understand another person\u2019s emotions. It is also the awareness of why they might be feeling those emotions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theory of mind: <\/strong>It is the ability to understand others\u2019 intentions, knowledge and beliefs and recognize that those might be different from your own.<\/p>\n<p>Neurobiologically <strong>different regions of the brain<\/strong> such as the prefrontal and frontal cortices and others are <strong>involved in the cognitive mechanisms of SEL<\/strong>. Thus, it is vital to consider that the learning process is a social as well as an emotional experience.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>How pandemic bought challenges for SEL?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The pandemic has brought numerous challenges for SEL as school closures reduced opportunities for students to deepen social relationships and learn in shared physical spaces.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What practices can we adopt?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Individuals from underprivileged backgrounds have faced immense learning losses during the pandemic. We need to prioritize \u201c<strong>inclusive and equitable quality education<\/strong> and <strong>promote lifelong learning opportunities<\/strong> for all.\u201d We can start with the following strategies:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Practices: <\/strong>SEL practices should be based on students\u2019 socioeconomic backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strategies: <\/strong>SEL strategies of caretakers and educators must align with one another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientific use<\/strong>: Long-term success requires SEL to be based on scientific evidence.<\/p>\n<p>As can be seen that such comprehensive learning involves all the stakeholders, including parents and teachers. This onus lies on all of us to bring the changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>Empathy through Education&#8221; <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>20th September 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis:\u00a0Social and Emotional Learning is not fluff; it is an important goal in education. Introduction The article highlights the importance of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) as an important tool of education. India&#8217;s recent National Education Policy also highlights its importance in children&#8217;s development. What is SEL? It forms the foundation of human development, for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/empathy-through-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Empathy through Education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[231,212,7832,7439,9855],"class_list":["post-135480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-education","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-national-education-policy","tag-school-education","tag-social-and-emotional-learning","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698367794},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}