Abstract
Social emotional learning (SEL) is very important to the well-being of students and their academic achievement in school. The purpose of this study was to search any relation between social studies text books and social emotional learning. This study was conducted as a qualitative study. 9 SSTBs were investigated by 21 fourth grade pre-service teachers from Faulty of Elementary Education in the last semester from Sinop Education Faculty in Turkey. University students have common knowledge that SSTB contains SEL content. Physical feature, content and applicability are the three main themes found in this study. The research method has high validity and reliability. Future studies should be conducted on the intensity, number of activity and distribution of skills of SEL in SSTB. Do the activities in SSTB affect SEL of students? How do the teachers teach the activities of SEL? Besides teachers’ teaching strategies, how parents and peers at home and school are occupied with SSTB’ activities on SEL are the other issues that should be born in mind in future studies. Key words: Social emotional learning, social studies textbook workbook, pre-service teacher.
Highlights
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all, as Aristotle declared that education, teaching and learning is an emotional process a great deal
The purpose of this study was to search any relation between social studies text books and social emotional learning
9 SSTBs were investigated by 21 fourth grade pre -service teachers from Faulty of Elementary Education in the last semester from Sinop Education Faculty in Turkey
Summary
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all, as Aristotle declared that education, teaching and learning is an emotional process a great deal. Social emotional learning (SEL) seems to be the core for all problems which arise from emotional gap in educational process. SEL focuses on emotion and knows duties and responsibilities. This umbrella term is not easy to explain with many words. SEL is defined as the series process of gaining knowledge, skills, attitudes, abilities and beliefs to identify and manage emotions, caring about others, making good decisions, behaving ethically and responsibly (moral aspects of behaving), developing favorable inter relations and setting up interaction with others, and avoiding undesired behaviors. SEL is directly related to academic achievement that is why skills requiring classroom success are applied in social situations such as school, family, work life or any place that human beings take part in (Elieas and Moceri, 2012: 424)
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