1. Why do teachers need to be systemically supported in developing SEDA competencies? : insights from international large-scale assessment dataKlaudija Šterman Ivančič, 2024, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: The chapter identifies the biggest challenges facing the teaching profession nowadays, explaining how they relate to teachers’ well-being, teacher–student relationships, and positive educational student outcomes, along with the role of social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness in addressing them. We also shed light on the importance of strengthening teachers’ and students’ social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness based on the latest results of the Teaching and Learning International Survey and the Programme for International Student Assessment in countries participating in the HAND in HAND: Empowering Teachers Across Europe to Deal with Social, Emotional and Diversity-Related Career Challenges project (Austria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden), where we examine the extent to which certain aspects of social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness (i.e., teachers’ views on how society values their profession, satisfaction with the profession, teacher–student relationships, teachers’ stress, self-efficacy in multicultural environments, students’ sense of belonging at school, quality of teacher–student relationships, socio-emotional competencies) are supported in teachers’ and students’ reports. While the results vary widely between the mentioned countries, significant shortages are revealed in teachers’ and students’ social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness in all five education systems. The results thus support the notion that social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness should be systematically supported in education, and the implementation of HAND in HAND: Empowering Teachers Across Europe to Deal with Social, Emotional and Diversity-Related Career Challenges project and similar projects is extremely important for fostering students’ and teachers’ well-being and positive academic outcomes.
Keywords: education, teachers, teacher's competencies, challenges of teaching, SEDA competencies, programme for international student assessment, teaching and learning international survey
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2. Teachers social, emotional, and diversity awareness competencies : from policy experimentation to policy recommendationsUrška Štremfel, 2024, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: This chapter aims to explain the HAND in HAND: Empowering Teachers Across Europe to Deal with Social, Emotional and Diversity-Related Career Challenges (“HAND:ET”) project from a policy perspective. Basic theoretical insights into the relationship between social science experimentation and policymaking are provided. The chapter explores how the HAND:ET policy experiment is positioned with respect to existing educational priorities concerning teachers and their well-being on the EU level and in the national policies in the countries participating in the policy experimentation (Austria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden). The chapter describes the manner in which the HAND:ET policy experiment, by focusing on teachers’ SEDA competencies addresses the recent European Union policy problems of the teacher profession (e.g., teacher shortages) and, based on the literature review, seeks to identify possible policy recommendations that would ensure that the results of the HAND:ET policy exper‐iment are applied on the systemic level of the EU and the participating countries. It thus elaborates on the conditions for the scalability, transferability and therefore sustainability of the HAND:ET policy experimentation outcomes in the wider field of teacher policy.
Keywords: education, teachers, teacher's competencies, social and emotional competencies, diversity awareness, policy experiment, policy problem, policy development, policy recommendations
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3. Policies supporting teachers’ social and emotional competencies, and diversity awareness on the European union levelUrška Štremfel, 2024, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: The chapter presents the embodiment of teachers’ social and emotional competencies, and diversity awareness in European Union policies in a longer-term perspective. It demonstrates how teachers’ social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness have slowly entered the European Union agenda ever since the European Community was set up in 1951. This path has been marked by supporting teachers’ mobility (1990s), strengthening their intercultural competencies (2010s) and, finally, establishing teachers’ well-being as a high political priority (2020s). The chapter shows that teachers’ competencies (also those implicitly related to social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness) are treated mostly as support for students’ outcomes and assuring quality and effective education and training and, to a large extent the exposure of their importance in European Union policy documents, is influenced by external factors (the economic, migrant and COVID crises). By describing past and particularly current European Union strategic priorities concerning the development of teachers’ well-being and social and emotional competencies, and diversity awareness, the chapter outlines the European Union policy framework in which the HAND in HAND: Empowering Teachers Across Europe to Deal with Social, Emotional and Diversity-Related Career Challenges project was initiated and to whose realisation it is expected to contribute.
Keywords: education, European Union, teacher policy, historical development, social and emotional competencies, diversity awareness, well-being
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