Enhancing Social Emotional Learning: Drama with Host and Refugee Children in Turkey

Abstract

Close combat in other words the war which causes migration is a main problem in some Muslim countries. This study is about facilitating social emotional learning and enhancing intimate relation between host and refugee children in Sinop. Drama sessions were occurred in the most north part of Turkey in Sinop. Sinop is one of the small cities in Turkey in Black Sea shore which situated in a peninsula.  There were ten drama sessions held with 50 students. The students are studying in third and fourth classes in primary school.  25 students were Turkish and 25 students were refugee children. Those refugee children are from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. The study conducted as a qualitative. 50 students were interviewed after ten drama sessions. Social emotional learning’s five core competences are main themes of this study. These are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making and problem solving. They are the main themes retrieving from interviews.

Keywords

• Social emotional learning, drama, refugee children

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