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Social and emotional conditions affecting Learning
We need all of our emotions for thinking, problem solving, and focused attention. We are neurobiologically wired, and to learn anything, our minds must be focused and our emotions need to "feel" in balance. Emotional regulation is necessary so that we can remember, retrieve, transfer, and connect all new information to what we already know. When a continuous stream of negative emotions hijacks our frontal lobes, our brain's architecture changes, leaving us in a heightened stress-response state where fear, anger, anxiety, frustration, and sadness take over our thinking, logical brains.There is no doubt that social emotional learning teaches character. Many years ago the question of how does social and emotional development affect learning was investigated.
In my opinion the best place to learn character is the home. Teachers can reinforce this in school, but teaching character and discipline is not the primary role of education. Society as a whole needs to be grounded on universal principles in order to prepare the next generations and to move on and choose wisely today. When all things become relative, certainties arise, affecting and our sense or right and wrong.