A Study of Development of Social Emotional Competencies in Collaborative Activities Focusing on Personal Characteristics

Abstract

This study focuses on clarifying how learners with different personal characteristics develop different social emotional competencies through collaborative activities at the UWC ISAK Japan summer schools as an effective SEL, and what kind of collaborative activities allows the different personal characteristics of learners to work together effectively through the interviews for 4 participants of the program. Qualitative analysis showed that “Collaborative activities that visualize and highlight the diversity of learners’ thoughts and actions based on personal characteristics” and “Collaborative activities that require learners to reconcile the differences in their thoughts and actions based on personal characteristics” are effective as collaborative activities that support social emotional learnings.