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Emotion in Education: An Interview with Maurice Elias

The director of Rutgers University’s Social and Emotional Learning Lab talks about why SEL should be an integral part of academic life.

March 6, 2008

Maurice Elias is a psychology professor at Rutgers University and director of the Rutgers Social-Emotional Learning Lab and the Developing Safe and Civil Schools Initiative. He is a regular blogger on Edutopia.

This interview was recorded on December 10, 2007, at the CASEL Forum, an event in New York City that brought together seventy-five global leaders in education and related fields to raise awareness about social and emotional learning (SEL) and introduce important scientific findings related to SEL.

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