Integrating Social-Emotional Learning in Higher Education for Equity, Well-Being, and Civic Engagement

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Recognizing and attending to emotion has typically not been within the purview of higher education, particularly in academic disciplines, where the intellectual, rational, and logical take center stage; this is so even though a robust body of research evidences the inextricable link between emotion and cognition (Immordino-Yang, Darling-Hammond, Krone, 2018). There is now a heightened urgency to integrate social-emotional learning (SEL) in higher education given the intersecting pandemics of COVID-19, racism and their ensuing adverse effects. In this symposium, we present four papers that explore emerging research on integrating and leveraging SEL for the purpose of advancing equity, well-being, and civic engagement in higher education, across a range of contexts.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Social and Emotional Learning

Chair

• Deborah Ann Donahue-Keegan, Tufts University

Papers

• Marginalization, Coping, and Belonging: Social Emotional Learning Predictors for Higher Education Students - Kathleen M Hughes, University of Calgary; Jusnoor Aujla, University of Calgary; Michael Alex Bednar

• Measuring Civic Orientation in Undergraduate Students - Nicole Brocato, Wake Forest University; Laura Hix, Wake Forest University; Parissa Jahromi Ballard, Stanford University; Xinyu Ni, Wake Forest University

• Modeling, Embedding, and Utilizing Social Emotional Learning to Strengthen University-Based Teacher Preparation - Rochonda Lynn Nenonene, University of Dayton

• Social-Emotional Learning for Equity and Civic Engagement in Higher Education: The Key Role of Faculty Professional Development - Deborah Ann Donahue-Keegan, Tufts University

Discussant

• Jennifer Baszile, University of California - Santa Cruz