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National policy support for developing teachers’ social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness : comparative insightsUrška Štremfel, 2024, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph
Abstract: The chapter aims to provide comparative insights into national policy frameworks supporting the development of teachers’ social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness in the HAND in HAND: Empowering Teachers Across Europe to Deal with Social, Emotional and Diversity-Related Career Challenges project field trial countries (Austria, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden). The results show that, despite several good practices being identified, the field is not systematically supported in the mentioned countries. This is evident in the lack of clear definitions and goals in key national policy documents, the non-obligatory presence of the topic in both initial teacher education and continuous professional development, the absence of systematic monitoring of teachers’ well-being and social and emotional competencies and diversity awareness, coupled with the scarce policy-related research in the field. Nevertheless, significant differences between countries are established. These findings are important for determining fields in need of further improvement, identifying good practices for policy learning between European Union countries as well as providing one of the several backgrounds for understanding the complexity of the HAND in HAND: Empowering Teachers Across Europe to Deal with Social, Emotional and Diversity-Related Career Challenges policy experiment results.
Keywords: education, teachers' well-being, social and emotional competencies, diversity awareness, national educational policy, comparative insights
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