Social and Emotional Skills – a Requirement for Personal Development at School Age

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Veneta Uzunova

The focus of the current article is the age group of 12-14 years of age (6th-7th grade) due to the global tendency in society today where more and more families are not able to provide an adequate support in life and the schools become the only place where children could obtain the needed corrective measures to make up for their lack of emotional and social competency. The selected age group represents the most fragile period of human life span. The family and the peers are the most influential factors in the socialization process. The striving toward autonomy and the search for the real self, the interest toward what is new and different, the perception of adulthood draws teenagers closer to their peer group. That however does not replace the need for safety, trust, protection which keeps attracting them back to their families. At the center of our research is the question is the balance between functioning in different fields of social interaction a measurement for a complete life and for a successful implementation of the process of establishment of social and emotional skills.

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-34
Author(s):  
Veneta Uzunova

The focus of the current article is the age group of 12-14 years of age (6th-7th grade) due to the global tendency in society today where more and more families are not able to provide an adequate support in life and the schools become the only place where children could obtain the needed corrective measures to make up for their lack of emotional and social competency. The selected age group represents the most fragile period of human life span. The family and the peers are the most influential factors in the socialization process. The striving toward autonomy and the search for the real self, the interest toward what is new and different, the perception of adulthood draws teenagers closer to their peer group. That however does not replace the need for safety, trust, protection which keeps attracting them back to their families. At the center of our research is the question is the balance between functioning in different fields of social interaction a measurement for a complete life and for a successful implementation of the process of establishment of social and emotional skills.


Author(s):  
Adrian Opre ◽  
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Ramona Buzgar ◽  
Sebastian Pintea ◽  
Dana Opre ◽  
...  

In the last two decades, most of the Romanian mitigate programs aimed at reducing school dropout, have often focused only on remedial activities. However, keeping students in school for as long as possible involves increasing their school engagement, and therefore developing dimensions that target social and emotional skills is strongly recommended. In the present study, 130 primary and secondary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds, participated for 8 months in remedial and personal development activities, whose medium-term goal is to reduce school dropout. Using scales from the BASC3 and ASEBA4 psychological test batteries, we were able to capture significant effects of the intervention in reducing emotional problems and increasing students' adaptability to school-specific tasks, even though the pandemic imposed several restrictions on activities. The collected data revealed two important outcomes. First, they confirmed the effectiveness of a complex, multilevel program, which can develop the socio-emotional abilities of children at risk of dropping out of school. Second, they help us to highlight several factors that can predict its effectiveness. We consider that these empirical data constitute a solid foundation based on which similar future programs can be designed and implemented.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Meganck ◽  
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij ◽  
Bert Van Poucke ◽  
Elke Van Hoof ◽  
Els Snauwaert ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 17-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Kyed

En række sociologer har de seneste år peget på, at den postindustrielle serviceøkonomi stiller stadigt større krav til servicemedarbejderes sociale og følelsesmæssige kompetencer. Eva Illouz (2008) argumenterer eksempelvis for, at vestlige samfund kendetegnes af en ”emotionel kapitalisme”, hvor følelsesmæssige kompetencer er blevet en central stratifikationsfaktor, som marginaliserer især mænd med en traditionel arbejderklasse habitus. Men få studier har undersøgt, hvordan arbejdsgivere rent faktisk vurderer ansøgernes sociale og følelsesmæssige kompetencer. Gennem interviews og observationsstudier har artiklens forfatter undersøgt, hvordan verdens største ambulanceoperatør vurderer og værdsætter ansøgeres sociale og følelsesmæssige kompetencer gennem rekrutteringsprocessen til stillingen som ambulanceredderelev. Artiklen viser med udgangspunkt i fire ansættelsessamtaler med mandlige ansøgere, hvordan ansøgerens primære følelsesmæssige habitus har betydning for samtalens udfald og de sympatirelationer, som skabes i forbindelse med samtalen. Data viser også, at selvom ledelsen fremhæver, at personlighed og empati er afgørende i screeningen af ansøgerne, så anvender virksomheden ikke personlighedstest eller andre psykologiske teknologier i rekrutteringsprocessen. Sociale og følelsesmæssige kompetencer vurderes derimod ud fra ansøgerens institutionaliserede omsorgskapital samt bedømmelsesudvalgets mavefornemmelse af ansøgerens følelsesmæssige dispositioner og evne til at passe ind både i faget og virksomhed. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Morten Kyed: ”We Are a Business that Is Really above Average in Empathy”: Recruiting ”Soft Competences” in Ambulance Service A number of sociologists have suggested that the post-industrial service economy is placing increasing demands on service employees’ social and emotional skills. Eva Illouz (2008), for instance, argues that Western societies are characterised by an ”emotional capitalism”, in which emotional competencies are pivotal for social stratification and marginalisation of men with a traditional working class habitus. However, few studies have examined how employers actually assess applicants’ social and emotional skills. Through interviews and observational studies, the author has studied how the world’s largest ambulance operator assesses and evaluates social and emotional skills of ambulance apprentice applicants. Employing four job interviews with male candidates, the article illustrates how the applicant’s primary emotional habitus is important for the construction of sympathy relations during the job interviews and the outcome of the conversation. The data also shows that although management emphasises that personality and empathy are crucial when screening applicants, the company does not use personality tests or other psychological technologies in the recruitment process. Assessment of social and emotional skills is based on the candidate’s ”institutionalised care capital” and the assessment committee’s gut feeling about the applicant’s emotional disposition and ability to fit into both the vocation and the company. Keywords: service work, service economy, recruitment, social competences, emotional competences, gender.


2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo A. S. Moreira ◽  
Susana Jacinto ◽  
Paulo Pinheiro ◽  
Anita Patrício ◽  
Lorena Crusellas ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Katherine Main

Early adolescence marks a developmental period during which there is a window of opportunity to explicitly teach and make a significant difference in a young person’s development of social and emotional competencies (SECs). All students can benefit from the inclusion of SECs and failing to develop such SECs can result in poor outcomes in several domains including personal, social, and academic outcomes. Research on social and emotional programs for young adolescent learners has shown that a ‘skills and drills’ approach is far less effective than focusing on mind-sets and classroom climate. Although the role teachers play in explicitly teaching and supporting young adolescents’ SECs has been recognised, teachers have reported a lack of confidence in knowing what, and how to teach these skills. This paper reports on a teacher education course that embedded social and emotional skills into both coursework design and assessment expectations. Results drawn from an analysis of students’ responses to their main assessment task showed that pre-service teachers had a growing awareness of SECs and, in particular, were able to recognise the importance of focusing on the building of students’ SECs to support academic success across a broad range of curriculum areas.


2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-146
Author(s):  
Alina Pertea ◽  
Valentin Grecu

Abstract This research is the result of intense concerns about the role of theater in society beyond the theater show, from the creative process of analysis and introspective psychological insight, to the side effects of theater as a form of expression of the individual, and reception, assimilation and processing of theatrical codes and messages. The paper focuses therefore on theatric pedagogy, the forming tools and the size of the theater, and its value as a means and as a didactic factor for personality stimulation and development, both in terms of form and content. To this end, there are presented both theoretical perspectives and an exploratory study, which aims to verify the applicability, usefulness and effectiveness of theatric pedagogy means as an additional training method to facilitate the integration of graduates in employment and a successful professional collaboration, in an industry mainly in the field of real profile


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