The Social-Emotional Learning Bait-and-Switch

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 85 Critical Education Theory Series, Part 17 Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is a key battleground topic in education today. Parents across the country are rightly very upset that what sounds like and could be a very useful program for kids who struggle in certain ways at school has far less wholesome purposes. On the one hand, they're noticing that SEL tends to be misapplied in classrooms and through other subjects, not in controlled therapeutic settings with kids who have been identified to need it. On the other hand, they've noticed far more nefarious uses like data mining of children and a diversion of educational resources into overtly grooming and Marxist programs they don't support or want for their kids. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay goes through a paper on Social-Emotional Learning in the context of the pandemic to reveal that there's an intentional bait-and-switch being sold to school districts (unless they realize what they're doing, which is unconscionable). What sounds good in SEL is being sold to promote "Transformative SEL" (CASEL model) or, in this paper, "Social-Emotional Learning for Social-Emotional Justice (SEL-SEJ)," which is just a different description of essentially the same thing. What's obvious here is how flimsy SEL programs of this type are and also how overwhelmingly Marxist in the Paulo Freirean mold Lindsay is exposing in tremendous depth here on the New Discourses Podcast. Join him to learn about how SEL is definitely not what it might seem to be. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody, it's James Lindsay.
0:22.2	We're on the new Discourses podcast.
0:24.4	We're talking about education, talking a lot about education.
0:28.2	In fact, we're going to talk a little bit more about social emotional learning.
0:33.0	I did a podcast over four hours actually reading through a paper explaining the fundamental
0:38.5	bait and switch of social emotional learning, which evolved through time.
0:43.5	Now the origin story of social emotional learning is complex.
0:47.1	I don't trust it.
0:48.7	It started with a guy named James Comer.
0:51.4	I don't know what his intentions were.
0:53.2	It was rapidly picked up by a woman named Linda Darling Hammond.
0:58.4	Darling Hammond is hyphenated.
1:00.2	Linda Darling Hammond was one of Obama's Zars for the Common Core Program.
1:05.0	She's on the castle.
1:06.0	I don't know if she's on the castle board.
1:07.5	She's significant within castle, the collaborative for academic social and emotional learning,
1:12.4	which is the organization that's pushing the Marxist form of social emotional learning.
1:17.8	Through all these kinds of things, she was also, by the way, the Weatherman Underground,
1:22.2	the literal left-wing terrorist Bill Ayers pick for the Obama job, highly supported
1:30.8	by a terrorist for this job.
1:33.1	She's still very active in social emotional learning things today through castle, which
1:37.1	has taken up two kind of brand names, transformative SEL and systemic SEL that you need to be aware
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