Social and emotional learning is an important part of a child’s education. Some would argue that it is slightly more important than the academic learning done by children. Social and emotional learning is what helps children build relationships and connections to help them become established adults in the future.
Social learning is made up of the knowledge of skills that you have when interacting in a social setting with someone. For example, knowing what is appropriate behaviour from one setting to the next is social learning. Emotional learning is being able to keep your emotions in line; knowing when a certain emotion is called for and when it is best to keep it to yourself. It is important that children learn this skill so that they can become functioning citizens. When they are able to control their emotions and also know how to act in social situations they are able to do things like conflict resolution. Social and Emotional learning are the building blocks on which our society is built.
Erik Erikson was one of the first to look further into the social and emotional influence on how we grow and mature as humans and he came up with the psychosocial stages of development. There are 8 stages to his theory. The first 4 are the ones that we can support within an early
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Society’s view of them becomes the view that the children have on themselves. As educators it is important to remember that all children are unique. We must support children in there endeavours.We must also remember not to give certain activities a gender roll. For example, there may be girls that like soccer more then some boys and boys that like the arts more then some girls and we cant look down on that as a child educator. In all the stages we must support the child in every thing that they decide they want to do. Children must not feel that they have no opinion and no