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Social and Emotional Well-being of Young Children in ECEC Settings – Summary Report
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Social and Emotional Well-being of Young Children in ECEC Settings
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An article on ICDI’s SEED project published in ‘Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood’
Three years after the end of the project ‘SEED: Social and Emotional Education and Development’, the Norwegian researchers from Queen Maud University College of Early Childhood Education, Trondheim, who participated in the project, together with ICDI’s former Senior Programme Manager Margaret Kernan, published an open-access article in ‘Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood’. It illustrates some…
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SEED research complete, now ready to support practitioners!
Between 26 and 28 September, the SEED researchers and trainers met together in a country farm outside Zagreb to discuss the findings from the SEED research and their implications for the second half of the project. This focusses on supporting practitioners to pay more attention to the psychosocial well-being in their daily practice. During the…
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What robots can learn from babies
The idea that robots might one day replace humans is no longer just in the realm of fantasy or science fiction. Roboticists are getting better at programming androids, and are working hard on trying to enable artificial intelligence to learn and develop by itself. To do this, they are more and more looking at how babies and…
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Strong evidence for strengthening social and emotional education in EU
Social and emotional education needs to start as early as possible. This is one of the key findings from a report, just published by the European Commission. The report shows clear evidence of the positive impact of social and emotional education on reduced mental health difficulties in children and young people and their academic attitudes and achievement. Social and emotional education has been the main focus…
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Country level screening of psychosocial well-being of 5-year-old children
Children’s long term success at school is influenced as much by social, emotional and self-regulation skills as by academic skills and knowledge. The overall goal of our project SEED is to improve psychosocial well-being and healthy development of young children (2,5 to 6 years old), with an emphasis on those growing up in difficult circumstances. We will do this by conducting a country…
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Screening of psychosocial well-being of 5-year-old children in Europe
Last week, the seven partner organisations who will be working together on the SEED project met in Budapest for the Kick-off Meeting. SEED stands for Social, Emotional, Education and Development. Our goal is to raise awareness about the importance of psychosocial well-being for young children’s learning and development. Especially children growing up in difficult circumstances such as children on…
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Social and Emotional Education and Development (SEED)
