QUALITATIVE ASPECTS OF THE INSTRUCTIVEEDUCATIONAL PROCESS SPECIFIC FOR SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING PROGRAMS
Keywords:
social and emotional learning, self-management, social-awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making.Abstract
The study represents a pre-testing of a social and emotional learning
program taken over from the British experience and developed in Romania aiming at
the research of major aspects regarding the quality of the instructive-educational
process. The research is a qualitative one, developed on the semi-structural observation
over 47 children from Iasi. There is a wide variety of obtained results and conclusions,
confirming the advanced hypothesis regarding the best practices in the teachinglearning
process, the attractiveness of programs for children and the improvement of
the learning environment. The study ends with a series of useful recommendations for
the practice of integrating social and emotional learning programs in the Romanian
educational system.
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