FRAMEWORK OF SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND ETHICAL LEARNING: EDUCATING THE HEART AND MIND

Finding high-quality and reducing educational materials is important due to the growing interest in providing
social and emotional learning opportunities throughout after-school and youth activities. An introduction of the
recently released Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning framework and curriculum, created at Emory
University, is given here, along with information on how it might be used in after-school and youth programmes.
This extensive learning system contains curriculum for students in kindergarten through grade 12 as well as a
website for online professional development for individuals who teach the programme. Students that engage in
social emotional learning are better able to interact with others, establish positive relationships, and control
their emotions. The Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics (CCSCBE), a research
institute at Emory University that promotes a science-based strategy for teaching the heart and intellect, created
the SEE Framework in cooperation with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The framework expands on the guiding
concepts of conventional social and emotional learning (SEL), adding attention training, compassion and ethical
discernment, resilience and trauma-informed practise, and systems thinking as additional elements. The SEE
Framework places a strong emphasis on the values and skills that students learn via SEE Learning in order to
perform actions that are sensitive, knowledgeable, and accountable and that contribute to the long-term
wellbeing of themselves as well as society.