ABSTRACT
As social and emotional education is becoming strengthened and ingrained in educational systems, the need to include children’s voices in its design and implementation is becoming more vocal. Children are agents who actively influence and shape their own lives. They are a source of knowledge and expertise, having unique and inside knowledge of what it is to be a student at school, a member of a peer group or a child with a group of friends. They are able to provide an accurate account of their own thoughts and feelings as well as suggestions on how relationships may be strengthened, how learning processes could be enhanced and how learning may be evaluated. They are one of the key players in social and emotional education, and their active participation in the planning and delivery of social and emotional education is related to positive academic and social and emotional outcomes. This chapter discusses how social and emotional education may be organised within a participatory co-productive approach, describing how the students can be actively involved in the design, delivery and evaluation of the social and emotional education.
