Habilidades sociais educativas de uma professora em contexto de interação com crianças em turma de educação infanti

Abstract

This research has as mais objective to analyze the Educative Social Skills shown by an Elementary School teacher on the development of social skills in childhood (HS), in a nursery, during moments of interactions between teacher-students and students- students. Her behavior is analyzed from the Educative Social Skills (HSE) theoretical perspective (DEL PRETTE; DEL PRETTE, 2008). This required making a brief theoretical review about social skills and the HSE, as well as about the teaching model to socially skilled behaviors, previously to the discussion of the results. The data were collected through observation of some classes given by a teacher of a nursery at João Pessoa-PB and through a semistructured interview with that teacher; observations were registered with the aid of a fiel diary and the interview was audio recorded and later transcribed and analyzed according to the literature about HSE and the analysis of content (BARDIN, 1979). The data analysis revealed that the teacher showed deficits in HSE, with rare moments of HSE in observed interactions with the students. The content of the interview confirmed that finding, with few references indicative of HSE, increasing the chances that children in her classroom did not develop HS for lack of a HS modeling adult. In closing remarks, the importance of developing HSE in teachers’ training, so that they became apt to serve as models for socially skillful conducts since early childhood.