SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND ETHICAL LEARNING: PRESSING PRIORITY OF EDUCATION

Published August 31, 2023 | Version v1

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The major aim of education is the wholesome, balanced and harmonious development of the personality.

Educationists and psychologists are busy in building wholesome or harmonious personality of the individual.

Personality development is the apex and crux of education. All knowledge of education and psychology is

ultimately related to understanding and development of personality. Personality pervades every aspect of human

life. It influences our behavior. It is said to be the mirror of one’s total behaviour. It is the total integration of

physical, intellectual, emotional, social and ethical makeup of the individual which is expressed in terms of

behaviour, attitude, values, beliefs, interests, habits, sentiments, temperaments and traits. Personality does not

exist in vacuum but to a large extent it depends upon social environment and education. It is the education that

makes individual cultured. Almost everything that an individual learns is acquired from education through

learning. Social, emotional and ethical learning are the three main pillars of education which lead to

harmonious development of personality of an individual. In the present scenario there is a great need to focus

on these three important aspects of education, as our young generation is deteriorating from their ethical and

cultural values due to westernization. As a result today’s youth has become so much self-centered that they are

mostly busy in serving their own interests. They do not have strong social and emotional bonding with others.

Thus it has been commonly believed that there has been erosion of social, emotional and ethical values among

youth in our society. So pressing priority of today’s education system is to cultivate the social, emotional and

ethical competencies of the students for their on- going personal, social and professional development, as well

as for the development of the society at large. The present paper is an attempt to focus the need and importance

of integrating the concept SEE in the present education system.

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