Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Chapter 3
OBJECTIVES:
GREETING
TYPES OF SOCIAL SKILLS
INITIATING
CONVERSATION
This requires good listening
and attention skills, as well
as the ability to take
turns and probe for
missing information
Being a good
conversationalist requires
turn-taking and reciprocity.
TYPES OF SOCIAL SKILLS
UNDERSTANDING THE LISTENER
Once the conversation is initiated, it has to be
maintained.
A socially adept child quickly and unconsciously
recognizes his listener.
Think the way they think
TYPES OF SOCIAL SKILLS
EMPATHIZING
One is able to feel what other person
feels. Empathy allows one to really
connect with other people.
TYPES OF SOCIAL SKILLS
READING SOCIAL
CLUES
Cues are the
hints and
signals that
guide us to the
next thing to say
or do. It can be
verbal or non-
verbal.
TYPES OF SOCIAL SKILLS
PREVIEWING OR PLANNING
Conversation also requires that one
previews or thinks about what effect the words or
actions may have on the listener before she says
or does to them.
TYPES OF SOCIAL SKILLS
PROBLEM SOLVING
How one reacts to these conflicts depends on how
good her problem solving skills are.
This requires negotiation and compromise, give
and take that results in a situation where all parties
can live with and help maintain relationships.
TYPES OF SOCIAL SKILLS
APOLOGIZING
A person with good
social skills is confident
enough to make a sincere
apology for her error.
This is a courageous act
and is the quickest and
easiest way to connect a
social blunder.
Apologizing is a sign of
humble and mature
character when one
commit mistakes.
THE ROLE OF
PARENTS AND
TEACHERS IN
TEACHING SOCIAL
SKILLS TO
CHILDREN
Parents typically
play the major
role in teaching
children social
skills by
modeling, role
playing and
providing
opportunities for
their child to
rehearse and
practice skills.
School in the place
where children
spend the majority
of their time with
peers it is, therefore
a natural and
perfect setting for
children to learn
and practice social
skills
Teachers do not have to teach a
class in social skills they can have
take advantage of any opportunity
to help children improve their
social skills. They should be alert
to teasing and bullying and aware
of child that are rejected or ignore
by their peers
“ISSUES IN
TEACHING SOCIAL
LITERACY”
How children develop
their social literacy is
intrinsically a contextual
matter and is not
something that can be
easily traced in a linear
or developmental
fashion
Children learn through
social practices, both
impicit and explicit and
become human through
social interaction.
Nevertheless, it is also
the case that children
engage in social
activity before they are
taught it; in other
words, children are
disposed to be social
before they learn what
sociability is all about.
Two distinct ways on how
children learn to live socially.
Normative and Communal- from their
culture children learn custom that
provide them with a guide to act in
ways that minimize conflict.
Pragmatic and Individualistic- the social
order of children in created by explicit
and implicit agreements entered into by
self-seeking individual to avert the
worst consequences of their selfish
instincts (Arthur, Davison,& Stow 2000)
• In this last view, social order is
dependent on santion and formal
agreements. Rules are obeyed
because they confer personal
advantage on a child.
• In normative children are persuaded
of the moral force of acting socially
through their voluntary associations
with others, both in their immediate
circle, such as the family, and in the
wider community, for example,
through membership of a church or
club.
SUBJECTIVE STANDARD OF
MORALITY- The natural outcome of post
modern philosopies is that truth and
morality are consider subjective and open
to individual interpretation. This can be
seen in the current culture, where action
and behavioral patterns that were once
considered bad have now become
acceptable.
HUMAN NATURE- While we would
like to believe that people are
inherently good, experience has taught
us that the inherent goodness of
humanity is, at best unrealiable;
Sometimes it is there, often it is not.
We are quick to champion the cause of
moral uprightness, justice .
Situational Awareness in the
Workplace