Comment: How do social and emotional conditions affect learning? (This, of course, is just as much the case for higher education, workplace learning, or informal learning in communities and personal life.)

Make an Update: Dorothy Espelage has taken just one area – bullying at school 

People are firstly emotional social beings. No matter how different people are in the things they like to do, one thing we have in common is that we all have emotions that can affect our learning, perception, memory and attention. Children as well as adults emotional state affects concentration and learning. Every student experiences different emotions during their schooling, which can positively and negatively affect their learning. School, environment, peers, grading and so on represent a wide range of emotions that children experience. 

In this third week Doroty Espelage spoke about bullying at school. I think that this topic is very important because today many children go through school violence, which greatly affects their emotional state. Unfortunately, many children are afraid to seek help and remain victims of violence for a long time. School violence does not always have to be physical, it can also be psychological. One study on peer violence at school conducted on the School Education Gateway platform showed that bullying occurs once or twice a month in almost half (47%) and only 3% of school answered that it never happend. 

Family can also affect people's emotional state. If there are constant quarrels or violence between the parents in the child's household, this can seriously affect the child's emotions. When a child comes to school he thinks about the situation that is happening in his house and cannot concentrate on learning. All of these various factors listed can lead to a child getting depressed. In the vast majority of cases the enviroment in which the person finds himself does not even notice that the person is depressed. Over time, the condition can ger worse of you do not react in time. One study found that within school an average of about 13% of high school students suffer from severe sympyoms od depression, which is an extremely high number. 

Unfortunately, society at this time does not talk enough about how social and emotional conditions affect learning or school bullying. If a person has emotional problems it will be difficult to concentrate on work, school, obligations or learning in general. To the extent that we ourselves notice that a person is going through a difficult period in life or some emotional or social problems, we should try to help them or instruct them to ask for professional help. Most importantly, we need to show them that they are not alone in this bad situation. 

As a future teacher I would like the child to know that he can turn to me for help and that I will always be there to help him. I think it is very important in a teacher's job to be able to recognize the extent to which their students have some problems. If the emotions are disturbed, we can recognize that, and if the grades ger worse and if we can see that child is not motivated, then we need to react. Emotional problems are serious problems and society should deal with them more, recognize them better and be determined to help the person dealing with these problems.