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In a fast-paced digital world, future leaders will require social and emotional intelligence to succeed
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2019/04/04
In a world flooded with information, we are getting increasingly distracted and fearful, which is leading to stress, dissatisfaction and depleting confidence level of youngsters. Social and emotional skills (SES) have become way more important today than it was two decades back.
As per a survey by the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society, emotional intelligence, which does not feature in the top 10 most demanded skills today, will be one of the key features in 2021 list.
“Researches have proven that social and emotional skills are more relevant than academic skills in predicting life success. Universities and recruiters need to pay more attention to social and emotional learning (SEL) process to produce a cadre of emotionally intelligent generation of humans for the future world,” said Richard Davidson, William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin and co-author, Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain and Body.
SEL is one of the basic building blocks that enable other forms of learning. It becomes difficult for students to learn academic concepts when they are unable to regulate their attention. Highlighting the directly proportional relationship between academic success and socio-emotional skills, Davidson added, “A large-scale research analysis conducted in the US with close to 280,000 school children revealed that on an average, kids who go through social and emotional learning programmes score 11% higher on a standardised test.”
“Creativity is missing from the Asian education system due to lack of education on the topic. Intellectual and emotional intelligence go hand in hand and the focus should now be on making SEL strategies widely available in universities,” said Anantha Duraiappah, director, UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP).
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