A paper on Aboriginal Perspectives on Social-Emotional Competence in Early Childhood. The paper examines parents and Aboriginal children throughout a period of time, specifically looking at how SEL literate the families and children are. I believe this type of research and perspective to be interesting and important, specifically with regards to children and their ability to self-regulate. The study shows that “Aboriginal children require an additional set of social-emotional skills to successfully navigate different cultural contexts during development”. While the paper brings up important and responsible questions, they address the fact that they have not looked into how culture, history, and language can play a large role in addressing social-emotional competence in early childhood, specifically indigenous children.
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Ensouling Our Schools: A Universally Designed Framework for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Reconciliation
This wonderful resource was given to me this year where its main focus draws on healing, mental health and reconciliation. Ensouling Our Schools: A Universally Designed Framework for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Reconciliation is a book that couldn’t have come any sooner. In a world void of empathy, and where schools have become anxious places where the marginalized are misrepresented, this resource helps us heal and rebuild. In Ensouling Our Schools, author Jennifer Katz weaves together methods of creating schools that engender mental, spiritual, and emotional health while developing intellectual thought and critical analysis.