Korean Educational Development Institute(KEDI)

A Study on Promoting Social and Emotional Education

The primary purpose of the study was to suggest policy measures to promote social and emotional education in elementary and middle schools at national level. To do so, this research defined the concept and elements of social and emotional learning (SEL) through literature review, examined precedents of SEL in major countries. In addition, the study analyzed students' developmental level of SEL and diagnosed the present condition of SEL in schools with the survey data. The collected data constituted a nationally representative sample of 12,101 students in 6th and 8th grade and 1,277 teachers in 250 elementary and 250 middle schools by stratified random sampling method.