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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: The Social-Emotional Learning Bait-and-Switch
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 85
Critical Education Theory Series, Part 17
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is a key battleground topic in education today. Parents across the country are rightly very upset that what sounds like and could be a very useful program for kids who struggle in certain ways at school has far less wholesome purposes. On the one hand, they're noticing that SEL tends to be misapplied in classrooms and through other subjects, not in controlled therapeutic settings with kids who have been identified to need it. On the other hand, they've noticed far more nefarious uses like...