Advancing Education in Muslim Societies: Mapping the Terrain

Abstract

As schools strive to provide a quality education for the twenty first century, they are becoming more aware that children and young people need to develop not only cognitive but also social and emotional competences to help them navigate successfully through the tasks and challenges in their pathway towards adulthood. This presentation discusses why it is important for children to develop social and emotional competencies in school and how these are related both to their social and emotional wellbeing as well as to their academic learning. It presents a whole schoolapproach to social and emotional learning, based on a recent analysis of reviews of studies and meta analyses on social and emotional learning, with a particular focus on the European context.