Healing Hearts: Social and Emotional Learning as the Path towards Emotional Well Being

Abstract

Recent years has seen an ever-increasing demand to look into the social, mental and emotional perspectives of learning that the children derive from their immediate learning situation. It is seen vital nowadays for the learner to be armed with requisite life-oriented skills for problem solving, decision making, relationship building and emotional wellbeing as it helps them towards a far brighter future. This is where the advent of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) takes shape to cater to the rising needs of the changing society and its goals. This paper outlines the need for proper incorporation of SEL into the domain of mainstream education and learning. The paper sheds light upon the true realization of SEL in educational sector aimed at the development of emotional intelligence and social behaviour of the learner and ultimately optimum emotional wellbeing through effective strategies for the implementation of SEL in the classroom environment.