Educational Value Related to Learning in Social Environments
The National School Climate Center (NSCC), makes the case that "Interpersonal relationships are the foundation for learning and human development." The NSCC has assembled a great deal of the information relevant to how to use the understandings about interpersonal relationships to shape goals and the methods or strategies that help students actualize their goals." In their school climate research they discovered that there are three critical aspects of interpersonal relationships. These are:
The NSCC and the New York State Center for School Safety developed a list of three essential aspects to social, emotional and civic abilities:
- Respect for Diversity
This aspect of relational life in school communities refers to what extent there is mutual respect for individual differences (e.g. gender, race, culture, etc.) at all levels of the school (student-student; adult-student; adult-adult) and overall norms for tolerance. - Social Support — Adults
This aspect of relational life in school communities refers to the pattern of supportive and caring adult relationships for students. This includes the nature of expectations for students’ success, willingness to listen to students and to get to know them as individuals, and personal concern for students’ problems. - Social Support — Students
This aspect of relational life in school communities refers to patterns of supportive peer relationships for students (e.g. friendships for socializing, for problems, for academic help, and for new students).
The NSCC and the New York State Center for School Safety developed a list of three essential aspects to social, emotional and civic abilities:
- (1) the ability to “decode” or read self and others (reflective and empathic capacities) and then use this information to
- (2) solve real problems in flexible and creative ways and
- (3) be a social, emotional and civic learner (e.g. learning to control one’s impulses; to communicate directly and clearly; to make and be a friend and more).