Out puts - Cross-cultural criteria

1. Cross-cultural criteria

Socio-emotional learning (SEL) and Executive Function (EF) skills are crucial in school learning and social interaction, as well as in a lifelong learning perspective. SEL  refers to the process through which children and adults acquire and apply knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, plan and achieve goals through responsible decisions, feel and show empathy and develop positive relationships with others (1). 

In turn, EF refers to self-regulatory abilities and skills concerned with attending, planning, monitoring, and regulating thinking, feeling and behaviours that are necessary for school learning and social interaction. SEL and EF should be understood as intertwined concepts. Aspects of the self-regulation required in SEL skills can be understood as EF abilities and skills, and vice versa.