Globalized Mobilities of Educational Well-Being: Policy Posture and Scalar Concerns

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Abstract

Policies related to social-emotional learning (SEL) have garnered significant attention in schools worldwide. Working with the ideas of policy mobilities, this paper illuminates the construction of a specific SEL policy in India in conversation with perceived ideas of student well-being at local, national, and global levels. I highlight the subnational SEL policy in this case as a relational and emergent social process which is multiply scaled, simultaneously representing, and speaking to the various levels. I propose the idea of ‘policy posture’ to underscore a policy technique used to (mis)align or (dis)associate policy discourse with respect to related ideas at other levels.

Author

• Neha Miglani, Florida State University
  Presenting Author