Books in the Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Theoretical Explorations and Practices inClinical, Educational, Social, and Cultural Settings series

Critiquing Social and Emotional Learning offers a systematic cultural analysis of social and emotional learning (SEL) as a codified phenomenon in education, critiquing the messages of SEL and the impact they have on teachers and children. Clio Stearns argues for more allowance of negative affect and complex emotional existence in the classroom.