Report Framework Featured in Harvard’s Social Emotional Learning Hub

The Social and Emotional Education (SEE) framework developed in the report published by the EU Commission of which Dr. Paul Downes, Associate Professor of Education (Psychology), School of Human Development, Institute of Education is a coauthor has been included as one of the frameworks in the Harvard University Explore SEL (social and emotional learning) – an interactive hub providing education leaders and decision-makers with tools and targeted knowledge to address their priorities. The tools and resources on this site support exploring, connecting, and comparing SEL frameworks and skills to build a broader and deeper understanding of SEL and related fields, to grow clarity and transparency, and to enable users to select a framework to guide their SEL work, and more.

The Report framework is featured under the title ‘EU NESETFramework for Social and Emotional Education‘.

This report Cefai, C., Bartolo P. A., Cavioni. V., Downes, P. (2018). Strengthening Social and Emotional Education as a core curricular area across the EU: A review of the international evidence. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union/EU bookshop was centrally cited as a key rationale by the EU Commission in its supporting documents for the new EU Key Competence for Lifelong Learning Framework, Personal, Social and Learning to Learn. It is available here: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/c7fae112-1529-11e8-9253-01aa75ed71a1

Dr. Downes also gave the opening keynote presentation, Developing a holistic, differentiated, systemic framework for social and emotional education, at the international conference,

Do We Need a Relational Revolution in Schools? Social, Emotional and Intercultural Competences for Inclusive Societies, Croatia, 28th & 29th January 2019: http://handinhand.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Programme_HiHConference.pdf

He wrote the foreword to the book, Ana Kozina (ed.) Social, emotional and intercultural competencies for inclusive school environments across Europe: Relationships matter.  Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, launched at the conference. The book is based on a research project across Slovenia, Denmark, Sweden, Croatia and Germany.