Nandini Chatterjee Singh is a cognitive neuroscientist and currently Senior Project Office at UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, in New Delhi, India. Nandini works on learning, in the context of literacy, emotion and music at he National Brain Research Centre(NBRC) in India using behavior and neuroimaging methods. Since 2017, she heads Rethinking Learning at MGIEP and has led the development of a new framework for social and emotional learning, entitled, EMC2 which builds competencies in Empathy, Mindfulness, Compassion and Critical Inquiry. EMC2 is being used to design new digital interactive curricula using global issues for school children across K-12.
Session Information: Session 5B: Foundational and Soft Skills for Disadvantaged Children and Youth Dr. Nandini Chatterjee, UNESCO MGIEP Dr. Sheldon Shaeffer, Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood, Thailand Mr. Sompop Jantraka, Development Education Programme for Daughters and Communities/Greater Mekong Sub-Region, Thailand Moderator: Ms. Thantida Wongprasong, Equitable Education Fund, Thailand Scope: Soft-skills are a combination of many different […]
