5 Key Benefits of Social Emotional Learning

If you’ve ever watched a group of toddlers play, you’ve seen social learning in action. It’s in the tentative offer of a shared toy, the negotiation over who goes down the slide next, and the comfort offered to a friend who has fallen. SEL is the practical, everyday process of learning how to be a person in the world alongside other people.

• Many people believe that key justice system actors do not abide by professional principles and do not trust their actions and decisions.
• Address shortages of justice system professionals, including in education and rehabilitation roles, ensuring that people with strong qualifications are selected in courts, the police and correctional institutions.
• Invest in continuing professional development for judges, prosecutors, lawyers, police and prison officers, with the aim to build a rights-respecting, people-centred justice system.

What SDG target 4.2 reveals about current priorities

SDG target 4.2 commits governments to ensuring that all children have access to quality early childhood development, care, and pre-primary education by 2030. SDG target 4.2 recognizes that access alone is insufficient: it measures not only participation in organised learning, but whether children are developmentally on track at the start of primary education.

Monitoring of progress towards SDG target 4.2 shows that participation in pre-primary education remains far from universal, with the largest gaps concentrated in low-income and crisis-affected contexts. In many of these settings, fewer than half of children are enrolled in pre-primary education, and access is particularly limited for children affected by conflict, displacement, and poverty.