Skills for Life: Social Skills for Inter-Ethnic Cohesion
Social skills are essential to building empowered and cohesive communities in ethnic diversity. In a world with massive population movements and growing anti-immigrant sentiments, schools stand out as important platforms to instill key social skills into our children to build inter-ethnic cohesion. Achieving this requires the implementation of rigorously tested educational actions. This brief provides the evaluation results of a particular educational program that was implemented in a high-stakes context where the ethnic composition of schools changed abruptly due to a massive refugee influx. The program significantly lowered peer violence and ethnic segregation in schools, and improved prosociality in children.
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| Language: | English |
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Inter-American Development Bank
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| Subjects: | Children, Ethnicity, Socio-Emotional Skill, Youth Violence, 21st-Century Skill, Diversity and Inclusion, Socio-Emotional Development, School Violence, I24 - Education and Inequality, I25 - Education and Economic Development, I28 - Government Policy, I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General, Education;violence prevention;Migration;socioemotional skills;21st century skills;socioemotional skills development;diversity and inclusion;refugee;empathy;persepective-taking;educational research;youth violence;conflict management, |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003207 https://publications.iadb.org/en/skills-life-social-skills-inter-ethnic-cohesion |
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