Putting It Together
Over the last several months I have focused on the
Affective/Social/Emotional Dimensions of Development and Growth in the
Preschool to Grade 3 years. I have
blogged about specific “programs” in the authors’ words, tracing these concepts
back to the 1980’s and forward to 2018.
There does not APPEAR to be one overarching concept that
covers these three superordinate categories of growth. It’s not clear to me how
teachers (or parents) can make sense of such a wide range of labels. Do teachers/schools focus on one of the
labels? If so, which one? And if so, why? And, if so, what is missing?
Consider the range of labels: Social/Emotional Learning,
Emotional Development, Social Development, Self-Management, Self-Esteem,
Self-Advocacy, Agency, ……..
It is taking me a while to reread all of this material to
determine if there is a way to organize it and, thus, make the overarching
attention to the Affective/Social/Emotional Dimensions of Development and
Growth user friendly. This will take a
while, but I’ll check in with my progress once a week.
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