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Fostering social and emotional skills through families, schools and communities: Summary of international evidence and implication for Japan's educational practices and research

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  • Hiroko Ikesako

    (OECD)

  • Koji Miyamoto

    (OECD)

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Social and emotional skills, such as perseverance, sociability and self-esteem, help individuals face the challenges of the 21st century and benefit from the opportunities it brings. Policy makers, teachers and parents can help foster these skills by improving the learning environments in which they develop. This paper reviews international evidence, including those from Japan, to better understand the learning contexts that can be conducive to children’s social and emotional development. It sheds light on features that underlie successful learning programmes including intervention studies. Reviewed evidence suggests that there are important roles for families, schools and communities to play in enhancing children’s social and emotional skills, and that coherence across multiple learning contexts needs be ensured. While most of the evidence comes from the United States and the United Kingdom, the paper suggests that further efforts could be made in Japan in collecting and better exploiting micro-data on a range of social and emotional skills, as well as in evaluating effectiveness of interventions designed to raise social and emotional skills. Les compétences socio-affectives, telles que la persévérance, la sociabilité et l’estime de soi, aident les individus à faire face aux défis du XXIe siècle et à tirer profit des opportunités qu’il offre. Les décideurs, les enseignants et les parents peuvent favoriser le développement de ces compétences en améliorant les environnements d’apprentissage au sein desquels se fait leur acquisition. Ce document examine les données internationales, notamment celles du Japon, afin de mieux identifier les cadres d’apprentissage susceptibles d’être propices à l’acquisition des compétences socio-affectives chez l’enfant. Il met au jour les caractéristiques sous-tendant la réussite des programmes d’apprentissage incluant des études d’intervention. L’analyse des données met en évidence le rôle important que peuvent jouer les familles, l’école et la collectivité dans le développement des compétences socio-affectives chez l’enfant, et la nécessité de garantir la cohérence entre les différents cadres d’apprentissage. Si la plupart des données viennent des États-Unis et du Royaume-Uni, ce document suggère que des efforts supplémentaires pourraient être faits au Japon pour collecter et mieux exploiter des micro-données sur un ensemble de compétences socio-affectives, ainsi que pour évaluer l’efficacité des interventions visant à renforcer ces compétences.

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  • Hiroko Ikesako & Koji Miyamoto, 2015. "Fostering social and emotional skills through families, schools and communities: Summary of international evidence and implication for Japan's educational practices and research," OECD Education Working Papers 121, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:eduaab:121-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5js07529lwf0-en
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    1. Hideo Akabayashi & Ryosuke Nakamura & Michio Naoi & Chizuru Shikishima, 2015. "Toward an International Comparison of Economic and Educational Mobility: Recent Findings from the Japan Child Panel Survey," Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series 2015-010, Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University.

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