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Author(s)

  • Erika Kolumbán, Semmelweis University András Pető Faculty
  • Yassine Joulal, Galileo Progetti Nonprofit Kft.

Abstract

In 2008, The Ministrul Educației și Cercetării in Romania provided a curriculum for kindergartens where they mention social and emotional education as an essential element and an important part of the integrated early childhood education. Four of the topics suggested by the curriculum fit perfectly into the tasks of developing social and emotional competence: (1) Who am I? Who are we?; (2) How do we express our emotions?; (3) Who plans and organises and how?; (4) What do I want to be? What do I want to be like?.In the kindergartens, the focus of the programme is on children's activities so that different personal competencies and skills are developed. The education in kindergartens is also divided into a two-level curriculum. The initial level is the socialisation stage, which lasts from 3 to 5 years of age, and is followed by the second, advanced level. The advanced level corresponds to the preschool stage, which consists of large groups and preschool classes respectively. At the advanced level, the basic skills are: preparing children for school life; laying the foundations for reading and writing; attention; developing imagination and creativity; motivation to learn.As recently as February 2022, the NGO, Association for Values in Education (AVE) put forth the efforts to develop social and emotional competencies in formal education. To do so, AVE launched the pilot programme HumanKind. Through this programme, teachers will be trained on how to support the students SEl development.

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