Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): Toward SEL in Service of Educational Equity and Excellence

By R. Jagers, Deborah Rivas‐Drake, Brittney V. Williams. Educational Psychology, 2019

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This article seeks to develop transformative social and emotional learning (SEL), a form of SEL intended to promote equity and excellence among children, young people, and adults. We focus on issues of race/ethnicity as a first step toward addressing the broader range of extant inequities. Transformative SEL is anchored in the notion of justice-oriented citizenship, and we discuss issues of culture, identity, agency, belonging, and engagement as relevant expressions of the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning 5 core competencies. We also point to programs and practices that hold promise for cultivating these competencies and the importance of adult professional development in making these efforts maximally effective for diverse children and youth. We conclude by offering a few next steps to further advance transformative SEL research and practice.

Subfields: Education, Safety Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Social Emotional Learning in Schools: The Importance of Educator Competence (2021, background): “Specifically, research focusing on transformative SEL that incorporates culture, identity, agency, belonging, and engagement as they pertain to the five core competencies in the CASEL framework are being explored (Jagers et al., 2019).”