A Mixed-Methods Approach to Investigating Social and Emotional Learning at Schools: Teachers' Familiarity, Beliefs, Training, and Perceived School Culture.

ABSTRACT: Education advocates argue that effective schools should foster multidimensional educational goals that not only include cognitive but also non-cognitive outcomes. One important non-cognitive outcome are social and emotional skills. Previous research showed that for enhancing students' social and emotional learning (SEL) one of the most important factor is the teacher. Hence, the present study investigated teachers' familiarity, beliefs, training, and perceived school culture with regard to social and emotional learning and its facets self-awareness, self-management, and social-awareness by applying a convergent parallel mixed-method design. We conducted in-depth interviews and an online survey with secondary teachers from different countries. The reason for collecting both qualitative and

SUBMITTER: Schiepe-Tiska A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8204053 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature