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McMain, Washington State University Brandon Edwards-Schuth, University of Oulu (Finland)  \nAbstract  \nAs social and emotional learning (SEL) picks up pace in the twenty-first century, it is often presented as a universally progressive and even apolitical phenomenon. At the same time, a growing number of politically conservative groups are attacking SEL as a form of “liberal indoctrination.” Amidst these layered contexts, there is an urgent need for deep, critical, and culturally humble conversations that recognize SEL as an inevitably political and power-laden phenomenon that must be consciously partnered with a commitment to social justice. In this article, we provide highlights and commentary from an interview podcast with two critical scholars, Clio Stearns and Kathleen Hulton, who shed important light on the sociocultural underpinnings of SEL. These scholars question how far the field of SEL can go in merely improving or reforming current practices, arguingfor more radical transformations to the ways in which social and emotional humanity is conceptualized.  \nKeywords: social and emotional learning; critical education; equity; podcasting  \nIntroduction: A Need for Critical Conversations Around SEL  \nEducation in the United States has long sought to address aspects of the “whole child”(Boler, 1999; Osher et al., 2016), but how that endeavor has manifested, what it has been called, and how it has been received by the general public have varied across time and context. In the 2020s, as public schools face increasing budget cuts to art, humanities, and social studies education, as well as diminished time for recess and play (McMullan, 2021; Timon, 2021), a mounting base of empirical research touts the importance of social and emotional learning (SEL) . Formally defined as“the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions”(CASEL, 2022), at the heart of most SEL lies the assumption that social and emotional aspects of being can be conceptualized as a range of skills or competencies and taught in a codified, formalized manner (Emery, 2016; Hoffman, 2009) .  \nTogether, an assemblage of researchers, software and curriculum development companies, investors, international organizations, school administrators, and localized communities uphold the sentiment that SEL is a progressive and evidence-based way to promote positive youth development, maximize academic achievement, and minimize “problem behaviors”(Humphrey, 2013;  \n1. Acknowledgement: We extend our gratitude to Marc Koch for producing the podcast that inspired this article.  \nWilliamson, 2021). The emergence of SEL learning standards and curricula in the US have rapidly picked up pace in the twenty-first century, and all fifty states have learning goals for SEL at the early childhood level (Philibert, 2016) . Simultaneously, SEL has become a target for attacks—usually delivered by those on the political right—describing it as “fluff,” “pseudoscience,” and“liberal indoctrination.” Many of these attacks associate SEL with a range of anti-racist practices collapsed beneath the label of Critical Race Theory (CRT), claiming SEL is a “Trojan Horse for Critical Race Theory”(Alexander, 2021) or a “new variant of the CRT virus” (Harris, 2022) . Amidst this layered sociopolitical moment, in which SEL is presented as an apolitical, universally progressive phenomenon by a powerful network of psycho-economic expertise and a leftist attempt at radical indoctrination by a smaller but notable group of conservative voices, it is crucial to pose a range of deep and critical questions toward SEL.  \nThe term “SEL” ","cbCaiomNhAbhyASO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiomNhAbhyASO","pdf",336231,17,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction: A Need for Critical Conversations Around SEL\n## SEL as a contested, politicized practice\n## What “SEL” means in formal standards and curricula\n## Approaches to improving SEL and calls for social justice oriented models","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article call for critical dialogue around SEL?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that SEL is not neutral; it is inevitably political and power-laden. 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