{"id":1619599,"date":"2022-08-23T03:16:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619599"},"modified":"2022-08-23T03:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:16:26","slug":"un-program-teaching-kids-social-and-emotional-learning-actually-seeks-to-kill-their-individualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/un-program-teaching-kids-social-and-emotional-learning-actually-seeks-to-kill-their-individualism\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Program Teaching Kids \u2018Social And Emotional Learning\u2019 Actually Seeks To Kill Their Individualism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fun-program-teaching-kids-social-and-emotional-learning-actually-seeks-to-kill-their-individualism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619599&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>School districts around the world are racing to implement Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs in the name of improving their students\u2019 social and emotional skills. In fact, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/systemic-implementation\/sel-policy-at-the-state-level\/#know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">global purveyor<\/a> of SEL standards, 27 states so far have adopted K-12 SEL competencies, and all 50 states have adopted SEL competencies for pre-K students. But where is this massive push for SEL coming from, and what are the motives behind it?<\/p>\n<p>The answer to this question is becoming clear: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a primary force behind the SEL movement worldwide. A major way UNESCO advocates for SEL is through UNESCO\u2019S <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development<\/a>. The Gandhi Institute produces an online publication called <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/the-bluedot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Blue Dot<\/a><em>,<\/em> which features articles from SEL experts and others around the globe that highlight \u201cthe relationship between education, peace, sustainable development and global citizenship.\u201d Invoking Gandhi\u2019s name in the title of this United Nations entity is meant to pull at the heartstrings of anyone who hears it. But should our heartstrings be pulled?<\/p>\n<h2>SEL Is Key to Achieving the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals<\/h2>\n<p>The title of a feature <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/article\/sel-for-sdgs-why-social-and-emotional-learning-is-necessary-to-achieve-the-sustainable-development-goals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> in The Blue Dot co-written by a specialist from the Gandhi Institute reveals why UNESCO is hellbent on getting SEL into every school in America and across the world: \u201cSEL for SDGs: Why Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is Necessary to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.\u201d The \u201csustainable development goals\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/sustainabledevelopmentgoals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SDGs<\/a>) are noble-sounding goals that would essentially require government management of energy sources worldwide and the large-scale redistribution of wealth in the name of saving the planet.<\/p>\n<p>In UNESCO\u2019s view, the endgame of SEL is not to meet the social and emotional needs of each child, but to shape all children to meet the needs of a global society by adhering to the sustainable development goals.<\/p>\n<p>The article explains that the UN\u2019s sustainable development goals will create \u201cdissonance\u201d in people due to the conflicting nature of some of the goals. The goals will also create dissonance in people because of the monumental sacrifices that may be necessary to achieve them \u2014 giving up fossil fuels, family values, and control of one\u2019s own property, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, proponents say it is necessary to reduce children\u2019s emotional resistance to the goals through systemic SEL in the classroom: \u201cSince dissonance is an unpleasant emotive state, subjects of dissonance require emotion-regulatory capabilities (emotional resilience) to navigate the behaviors and prerequisite antecedents to attain [the] SDGs.\u201d The article says, \u201cDissonance can be caused by beliefs, attitudes, values, and feelings,\u201d and that \u201cinterventions to reduce dissonance are required to address \u2026 the intensity of emotional response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In short, they believe interventions by way of SEL programs are necessary to influence young people\u2019s \u201cbeliefs, attitudes, values, and feelings\u201d so they will more readily think like global citizens and cooperate with the goals UNESCO has set for the world.<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/article\/what-is-systemic-social-and-emotional-learning-and-why-does-it-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> in The Blue Dot titled, \u201cWhat is Systemic Social and Emotional Learning and Why Does it Matter?\u201d and written by two officers from the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (<a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CASEL<\/a>), says CASEL\u2019s mission is to help make \u201cSEL an essential part of the preschool to high school education.\u201d CASEL has positioned itself as the world leader on SEL standards and has a cooperative relationship with UNESCO. These two entities are united in their zeal to weave SEL into all school subjects and to deliver it to all children everywhere.<\/p>\n<h2>Raising the Next Generation of \u2018Global Citizens\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>But why? What is it UNESCO wants to instill in children? UNESCO\u2019s materials make it clear that SEL is intended to foster not only kindness between students, but cooperation with a global agenda rooted in the doctrine of collectivism. Nandini Chatterjee Singh, a program specialist for the Gandhi Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ark:\/48223\/pf0000372241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> \u201cSEL skills are powerful competencies\u201d that have been shown to \u201cinstill pluralistic thinking.\u201d The institute\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a> further says it is seeking to teach children to \u201cexhibit prosocial behavior for \u2026 a peaceful and sustainable planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In short, proponents of the sustainable development goals and SEL want to instill \u201cpluralistic thinking\u201d in your child in the name of global peace. They want children to be taught to value the \u201ccollective good\u201d over individual liberties, rights, and property despite the fact that the freest, most prosperous nations in the world are founded on individual liberties, rights, and property.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Davidson, a writer in The Blue Dot, <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/article\/social-and-emotional-learning-and-neuroplasticity-why-it-matters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> UNESCO\u2019s Gandhi Institute is poised to disseminate SEL programs \u201cthat will have the potential to influence the development of the next generation of global citizens,\u201d and he declares, \u201cI believe that today we have a moral obligation to incorporate SEL into our educational systems at all levels.\u201d Similarly, CASEL <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/article\/what-is-systemic-social-and-emotional-learning-and-why-does-it-matter\">says<\/a>, \u201cSEL at the classroom level needs to be embedded in coordinated, systemic, whole-child, school-wide approaches.\u201d (For more on whole-child, whole-school approaches to education, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/02\/13\/arizona-legislators-propose-communist-style-community-schools-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>In another SEL <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/article\/how-do-teachers-view-social-and-emotional-learning-teacher-perspectives-from-four-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> in The Blue Dot, Mahima Bhalla, learning coordinator for the Gandhi Institute, says that \u201cin order to contribute to the goal of peaceful and sustainable societies,\u201d his organization \u201crecognizes the need to move beyond only academic purposes of education\u201d and instead focus on influencing the social and emotional state of students. This indicates a clear sea change in the purpose of education.<\/p>\n<h2>Systemic SEL Digital Curriculum<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/article\/social-and-emotional-learning-and-neuroplasticity-why-it-matters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to Davidson<\/a>, the Gandhi Institute\u2019s digital platforms \u201cshow great promise for massive scaling\u201d and the director of the Gandhi Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/article\/21st-century-skills-the-need-for-social-and-emotional-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> it has already disseminated a suite of interactive digital SEL modules that address \u201ccontemporary issues such as migration, nationalism and violence.\u201d The scope of these digital modules appears to go well beyond teaching Johnny and Billy to get along on the playground, which is how SEL is often sold to local educators.<\/p>\n<p>The intended reach of the Gandhi Institute\u2019s advocacy is made clear in its \u201cRecommendations to Implementing SEL\u201d section where it <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/article\/unesco-mgiep-s-recommendations-to-implementing-sel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> the recommendations the institute gives are \u201cprescribed as general guidelines for education decision makers at the national level right down to school boards and schools.\u201d It\u2019s also telling that it <a href=\"https:\/\/mgiep.unesco.org\/article\/unesco-mgiep-s-recommendations-to-implementing-sel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a>, \u201cThere needs to be an intentional focus (such as a campaign) organized by a coalition of partners led by UNESCO to communicate a common and unified message on the importance of SEL to parents and the public at large.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By their own admission, UNESCO and its partners are eagerly trying to sell the idea of systemic SEL to the stakeholders known as parents. So are the parents of the world lining up to demand that schools add integrated SEL programs to their children\u2019s school curricula? No. SEL is being peddled by UNESCO from the top down under the guise of local control.<\/p>\n<p>Developing the attributes of compassion, kindness, and empathy in children is a noble goal, and some of that development can appropriately happen at school. But infusing digitally connected, UNESCO-endorsed, systemic SEL curriculum into the classrooms of the world to instill pluralistic thinking in children is not the answer. Local programs, local communities, and individual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/05\/05\/dont-let-social-and-emotional-learning-programs-replace-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">families<\/a> are the best ways to instill social and emotional skills in children and to maintain free societies based on individual rights and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kimberly Ells is a writer, mother, and policy advisor for Family Watch International. Her book, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Invincible-Family-Campaign-Motherhood-Fatherhood-ebook\/dp\/B085NN1GLZ\/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&amp;keywords=the+invincible+family&amp;qid=1586970838&amp;sr=8-5%E2%80%9C\">The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can\u2019t Win<\/a>,&#8221; documents the global children\u2019s sexual rights movement. 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