Country-by-country guides to SEL curricula, frameworks, and research for elementary schools around the world.
Social-emotional learning looks different in every country. Some nations embed SEL into national curricula. Others distribute responsibility across provinces, states, or regions. Many weave social-emotional content into health education, citizenship, or personal development standards without calling it SEL at all.
These guides examine how each country approaches social-emotional learning in elementary schools: where SEL lives in the curriculum, what national or regional frameworks exist, what the research says about the current approach, and what teachers actually need to deliver effective instruction.
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How SEL works in Canada’s provincial curricula, what the first pan-Canadian analysis found, what the research says about the current approach, and what Canadian teachers actually need.
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PSHE, character education, and social-emotional skills across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Ofsted 2025 expectations, statutory RSHE, and what primary teachers need.
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Värdegrund, livskunskap, and wellbeing: how Sweden approaches pupils’ social and emotional development in grundskolan, what Lgr22 requires, and what Swedish teachers need.
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Personal and Social Capability, Health and Physical Education, and wellbeing frameworks: how Australia approaches student wellbeing in primary schools and what teachers need.
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Life skills, values education, and wellbeing: how Egypt’s Education 2.0 reform, the UNICEF LSCE framework, and religious character education create an opening for structured SEL in one of the largest systems in MENA.
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NEP 2020, NCF 2023, Panchakosha, and the Happiness Curriculum: how India’s education reform creates an opening for structured SEL at scale in the world’s largest school system.
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Soziales Lernen, Sozialkompetenz, and the Startchancen-Programm: how Germany’s 16-state federated system approaches social-emotional development in the Grundschule.
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