The Construction of Global Education'Best Practice':A Network Ethnography Analysis of Social and Emotional Learning in the United States and Beyond
the ideas and practice of social and emotional learning(SEL)first arose in the United States in the 1990s and then were taken up and borrowed by many countries and transnational organisations.Now SEL has become a new and popular form of education'best practice'worldwide.Using the method of network ethnography to follow a key node(CASEL)in shaping SEL practices,this paper depicts and demonstrates the policy trajectory of how SEL was developed in the United States and mobilised to the global.This paper shows the construction,changes,and extension of the policy network where CASEL is situated,and demonstrates the techniques used to produce ideas,connect relations,shape governance,and transfer policies.The discussions also foreground the dominant policy discourse embedded in the policy network.The findings highlight a paradigm of'applied policy'and its new qualities,logic,processes,and effects on education governance and the construction of global education'best practice'.Drawing on the policy network analysis,this paper also provides suggestions to think of how to enact social and emotional learning in China.
social and emotional learningpolicy networksnetwork ethnographypolicy sociologyeducation governance
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