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Critical Education: Transformative Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

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The Importance of Cultural Orientations in Competence Development

Cultural orientation toward acquisitive individualism continues to be the dominant theme promoted within US cultural institutions, including schools. Other cultural orientations or values provide an alternative sense of self other that's just got a slash between itself or other. For example, a communal orientation toward one's family, ethnic racial group or community reduces psychological distress and risky behaviors. The importance of cultural orientations to the nature of competence development is supported by emerging subfield of so social effective neuroscience.

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