My main research interest circles around the question of how education can act as a facilitator of human flourishing. In my current position as a PhD candidate, I intend to both further develop the ideas put forward in my master’s thesis and narrow the focus by looking at teacher education programmes specifically. There is much consensus that socio-emotional-cognitive skills can be taught, modelled, practised and applied; therefore, I believe it’s important to understand how and to what extent students enrolled in teacher education programmes receive, on the one hand, information on theories and research on children’s social and emotional development and, on the other hand, knowledge and skills needed to create positive and well-managed learning contexts that promote the developmental, psychological, educational and general health needs of all pupils. My research will therefore explore how international and national initiatives to reframe the concept of quality education and the growing amount of empirical evidence within academia on the far-reaching benefits of social emotional learning have had practical consequences on preservice teacher education in Sweden.