Socio-Emotional and Ethical Blended Learning

Education and schools face a range of complex issues coming to the fore in the first quarter of the 21st Century. Among the most prominent and indicative challenges is the undermining of children's rights and needs: from social exclusion and widespread bullying, lack of sense of belonging, acute stress and other mental health issues. Socio-emotional and ethical learning can be presented as a solution to support needs-meeting and rights-respecting environments.

This interdisciplinary project aims to achieve two main goals:

a) to provide novel and robust scientific knowledge on the issues of children's fundamental rights and basic psychological needs at school in the digital age and their links with those of other actors;

b) to co-develop meaningful, engaging, empirically based and scalable interventions to support socio-emotional and ethical blended learning of all stakeholders, to provide children with needs-meeting and rights-respecting socio-technical-educational environments, in a virtuous cycle of improvement.

Additionally, the transversal goal of this project is to study how digitalisation as part of the global environments and interventions (mostly absent from the developed frameworks) may impact these issues and children's lived realities.