한국윤리교육학회

Recently, there has been increasing academic interest regarding Social and Emotional Learning(SEL). Accordingly, this study examines critical studies of SEL and their respective counter-arguments. Criticisms on SEL are largely fourfold. Fist, theory primarily depends upon EI(Emotional Intelligence) theory, which is yet to be accepted in the psychological field. Second, as social and emotional competence is value-neutral concept, education through may have an immoral output. Third, SEL can serve as an educational system that merely helps maintain the hegemony of the US mainstream class. Ultimately, from a didactic perspective, SEL ignores intrinsic relationships built between students and teachers. In contention to above criticisms, advocates of SEL focus their arguments on its merits. Further, they address SEL's demerits and provide a possible improvement. As a result, in applying SEL to the Korean education system, the following paper suggests a necessity for standardized measurement of social emotional competence of Korean students, consideration of cultural idiosyncrasy, consideration of moral development as character education and necessity for teachers' voluntary researches.