Development of a Program to Foster Socio-Emotional Competences: An Intervention Study
-Heike Moyano Schmitt, research assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Marianne Schüpbach, Prof. Dr, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Anna-Maria Seemann, co-chair and course coordinator, Akademie für Ganztagsschulpädagogik, Germany; Heike Maria Schütz, co-chair and main coordinator, Akademie für Ganztagsschulpädagogik, Germany
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The educational goals of schools and all-day schools in Germany includes also support and strengthening of students‘ social-emotional competences. This is embedded in curricula and school laws in Germany. As a result of the ongoing expansion of all-day schools, a form of extended education, in Germany both the pedagogical staff and the students spend more time at school. This extended time frame is expected to allow for a better compatibility of career and family, but also to support the students‘ learning processes and academic achievement. Another goal of all-day schools is fostering the students‘ social and emotional competences. Organized as extracurricular activities, extended education, they can focus specifically on supporting these competences. Studies from the US reveal that extracurricular activities are especially effective for students‘ social behavior if they are sequenced, active, focused and explicit (SAFE) (Durlak, Weissberg & Pachen, 2010). This intervention study with a pre, post and follow-up design examines whether a guided, universal and preventive interventional program fosters the socio-emotional competences of students in all-day primary schools in extended education and is accepted by the involved stakeholders. The sample, treatment and control group, comprises N=290 students (Grade 1 to Grade 4) at twelve open all-day primary schools in the school year 2019/2020 in Bavaria, Germany.
The enactment of the new curriculum for Swedish school-age educare
-Maria Norqvist, PhD student, Umeå University, Sweden
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Swedish school-age educare (SAE) is a comprehensive practice for children in the ages six to twelve. SAE is governed by the same curriculum as the compulsory school. In 2016, a specific section aimed at SAE was added to the curriculum. The aim of this studyis to explore the process of introducing therevised curriculum for Swedish SAE; to analyse how SAE-staff interpret and re-contextualise the text in their practice, and how interpretation and realization processes relate to and affect each other. The design of the studyis inspired by policy enactment. This paper presents the results of the thematic analysis of interviews from one municipality. Two schools in the municipality were visited and in both schools the headmasters and SAE-staff were interviewed.An additionalinterview was made with the operations manager for all schools in the municipality. The preliminary results of the analysis indicates that the curriculum text for the SAE is welcomed and that it has clarified the missionofSAE. However, there are also difficulties in the process of translating and transforming the curriculum in the SAE settings. For example, the interpretation of the concept teachingis problematic, since the SAE originates from a social pedagogical traditionanddo not useteachingto describe the activities in their practice. Additionally,the SAE-staff expresses that they think that some formulations in the curriculum text puts the SAE in an underdog position towards the compulsory school.
Spotting “mathematics” in Swedish school-age educare
-Anna Wallin, PhD student, Stockholm University, Sweden; Paola Valero, Phd, Professor, Stockholm University, Sweden and Eva Norén, associate professor, Stockholm University, Sweden
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