Social and emotional learning plays an important role in preventing ESL through several mechanisms. When implemented in schools, social and emotional learning prevents ESL directly by promoting school connectedness, commitment and positive attitudes to school, teachers and peers and, indirectly, by enhancing educational success.
TEAM COOPERATION TO FIGHT EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING
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Ana Kozina
Articles by this author (8)
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Social and emotional learning as a tool for preventing ESL
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Social and emotional learning as a prevention tool in ESL
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Mental health as a risk factor for ESL: diagnostics, prevention, intervention
Mental health problems (e.g. anxiety, depression) are some of the risk factors for ESL and, by focusing on mental health prevention and intervention programmes in the school environment, we can reduce the many negative consequences poor mental health has on both the individual and community levels.
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Local community support in students’ self-concept development, academic achievement and ESL prevention
Through high-quality, community-based activities open to all students (including high-risk students), the community can play a significant role in building students’ positive academic self-concept and promote overall positive development that can, in turn, lead to lower levels of ESL.
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Support for autonomy, competence and relatedness using school – community collaboration as a systematic ESL prevention tool
The local community (school–community collaboration) can play an important role in preventing ESL by supporting a student’s basic psychological needs: autonomy, competence and relatedness. Autonomy, competence and relatedness are the building stones of intrinsic motivation that is crucial for students to stay in school.
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Preventing ESL by enhancing resiliency
Educational resilience is related to staying in school despite high risks (e.g. low social economic status, migrant status) present in one’s life and, as such, can offer a path for preventing ESL. Enhancing educational resilience is a result of fostering protective factor(s) on either the contextual (family, school, community, e.g. parental education trainings, positive school climate improvements…) or individual level (e.g. mind-set trainings).
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Mental health as a risk factor for ESL : diagnostic, prevention, intervention
Paper analyses psychological factors of ESL with special focus on anxiety. Anxiety is a cognitive, emotional, behavioural and physiological response with a feeling of danger that interferes significantly with overall and also school functioning and therefore can play a significant role in ESL.
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Support for autonomy, efficacy and relatedness using school – community collaboration as a systematic ESL prevention tool
The paper analyzes the role of local community in ESL – with special focus on school-community collaboration and Self-Determination Theory. Our underlying assumption that is tested in the paper is that positive and ongoing school-community collaboration fosters students’ autonomy, competence and relatedness which consequently prevent ESL.