An emerging strategy for the development of culturally relevant scales to capture aspects of students’ socio-emotional learning and social support for learning

Existing research on students’ socio-emotional learning and social support for learning in the Global South is limited and most scales that have been developed to measure these aspects of students’ learning and development originate in the Global North. We outline our emerging strategy for capturing student socio-emotional learning and social support for learning in the context of Ethiopia, which may have relevance for other researchers seeking to explore this area of study in Ethiopia or in other related contexts. We propose that considering aspects of students’ socio-emotional learning and social support for learning - in addition to foundational skills of numeracy and literacy - can help to move towards a more expansive and holistic understanding of learning.