Asynchronous (Online) Critical Pedagogy / Perspectives Research Report/Paper (Asynchronous)
SELVES: Social Emotional Learning Virtual ExchangeS
Social-emotional learning has become the trend umbrella term to blend the knowledge of society with individual emotional intelligence. Every individual is honored in their current community climate. The hand, the heart, and the brain collaborate on a global scale. Virtual exchanges have also fast become a commonality within 21st-century requirements. Real-world project-based learning can release imaginative and creative energy for all involved. Developing deep content knowledge as well as critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills, this collaborative online international learning project assisted students in their own social-emotional learning competence. This research paper presentation will showcase how a deeper sense of self-awareness was developed in a sustainable business project collaboration between Thailand and Japan using English as the lingua-franca in a second-grade university setting. Incorporating our full selves in any situation and leading with inquiry in problem-based classroom activities holds great potential for the future of humanity.
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Lynsey Mori is an EdD Educational and Professional Practice, Social Emotional Learning candidate at Antioch University, and is an assistant professor at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. Worked in ESL in London having gained a BA in anthropology and cultural and media studies, before moving to Kyoto, Japan in 2003. Studied for an MA in TEFL while working in the public and private sectors of Japanese education. Taught a range of English conversation classes of all ages and abilities, moved around kindergarten, elementary, junior high, and high school before settling on university education in 2010. Social Emotional Learning is at the core of assisting the perception of the world in a distinct way to gain greater self-coherence. In this current climate, such an emotionally grounded program would seem beneficial in any educational setting.