TEACHER'S SOCIAL SKILLS COGNITIONS AND REPERTOIRE: CHARACTERIZATION AND RELATIONSHIPS
Cognitions. Social skills. Teachers.
The present research entitled “Teachers' cognitions and repertoire of social skills: features and relations” aims, as a general objective, to know elementary school teachers’ cognitions and repertoire of social skills (SS). In order to achieve, the following specific objectives were constituted: a) to explore teachers’ sociodemographic profile; b) to identify their repertoire of social skills; c) to check teachers' cognitions about social skills. In the methodological procedure, regarding the nature of the research, it was characterized as bibliographical and field research, exploratory, descriptive, with a qualitative approach. In the collection of bibliographic data, databases such as: Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, Google academic, Capes, Scielo and Lilacs were used. Subsequently, field research was carried out which had as technical instruments a sociodemographic questionnaire, containing questions relating to personal, professional and socioeconomic data; a semi-structured interview script, containing ten question-situations in which participants could freely express their cognition about the required SS category of the proposed situation, and the Social Skills Inventory 2 (SSI2) containing 38 objective questions. The process of analyzing the data obtained in the sociodemographic questionnaire was carried out and presented through descriptive statistics; for the data obtained in the SSI2, the total and factorial scores were calculated online through its web platform. For the data obtained through the semi-structured interview script, the collective subject discourse (CSD) technique was used. It was obtained as results regarding the sociodemographic profile of the teachers, 07 female participants, 02 male, all with college certificate, but with discrepancy between their time experience overlapping their years of formation, tendered, ages 41 and 66 years old, with a socioeconomic level between 3 and 5 minimum monthly wages. As for the teachers’ repertoire of social skills, they demonstrated that most of them 06, presented a good repertoire of social skills, with results within the average for most items, in contrast, three participants presented as a result an inferior repertoire of social skills; and as for the teachers' cognitions about social skills, the participants had, in general, a knowledge about SS, however, not based on the theory, showing the need to expand the theoretical knowledge about SS.