Paper Title
Transition Phase in Secondary Education: The Social-Emotional Skills Perspective

Abstract
The inclination towards physical and psychological productivity in the global markets today, has critically questioned the need for a ‘skill set’, apart from academic performance, that can successfully impel a qualitatively educated labour force after the secondary phase of learning. Conversely, the Indian Education System fails to propel the equal maintenance and development of social and emotional skills in its young learning population both in terms of gender and spatial context. The objective of this paper is to introduce a ‘collaborative set’ of Social and Emotional Skills with the conceptualization of psychological development that can foster qualitative learning rates in the transitioning young population of India. Using the collected data from the district with a high literacy percentage, the study differentially analyses the Social and Emotional Skills along the demographic lines of gender and spatial context by using the Sustainable Social-Emotional Skills test. The results demonstrate that male students perform higher than female students on the Social and Emotional Skillsbecause oflower enrolments and geographical limitations in secondary learning programs. Keywords - Social and Emotional Skills, Secondary education, STEM Learning, Psychological development, Gender