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Social Skills
Social Skills
In a lifelong learning context social skills is a key feature.We have pointed to four approaches to promote lifelong learning in our concept:
•self-regulated learning•productive learning•cooperative learning •experience-based learning
Learning in these and other approaches require social skills.
Social Skills
To master social skills have become a life necessity in a society which is described as post-modern or late-modern (eg. Ulrich Beck and Zygmunt Bauman).
Our society is unsecure and hostile and can only be improved by trustful connection to other people.
To train social skills is therefore a priority field when we train to become lifelong learners in general and especially in environment of socially vulnerable groups.
Social Skills
Our definition of social skillsSocial skills are abilities and behaviors that help to direct the focus of one’s own behavior away from one’s own self towards a shared alignment with other individuals.
Socially competent behavior combines the individual’s goals with the values and goals of a social group.Cooperation &
team skills Communication
Relational group-dynamic process
Conflict management
Social Skills
Aspects of social skills are:
Cooperation and ability to work in a team: Openness and tolerance, sociableness, use of social resources, conducting negotiations, leadership skills, intercultural skills;
The ability to communicate: Language skills, active listening, feedback, empathy, giving andreceiving recognition;
Conflict resolution / the ability to compromise
Group dynamic processes
Cooperation &team skills
Communication
Relational group-dynamic process
Conflict management
Social Skills
In the Pro-Skills concept social skills is connected to different social environments and focuses on the ability to be an active and autonomous part in these different settings.
Cooperation &team skills
Communication
Relational group-dynamic process
Conflict management
Social Skills
Our aim in training social skills is to start the process and to develop the participants to;
•an active and autonomous citizen •be able to both connect to other persons •be able to agree and disagree
Cooperation &team skills
Communication
Relational group-dynamic process
Conflict management
Social Skills
To reach this aim the Pro-Skills concept defines two major key areas to focus on in training social Skills:
•trust •connecting
Cooperation &team skills
Communication
Relational group-dynamic process
Conflict management
Social Skills
We can define four active dimensions in play when we describe the phenomenon of trust: 1. Predictability, this is connected to our SOC (Sense of coherence) and this plays the role of imagining what is going to be our instrument to interfere with our destiny. Once again this can also be built on distrust.
2. Value-exchange, this in a way is rational decision making you have on basis of your prediction make the accounts. This can either be to change the conditions or avoid getting punished.
Social Skills
3. Delayed reciprocity, in a way this is equivalent with what we call solidarity, solidarity is not shearing of wealth by good hearted reasons it’s an act between equal parts which in a way also counts on that you can receive the same attention in a unspecified way and time.
4. Exposed vulnerability, connected to our need of being connected and cared for. This need is so big that we can expose ourselves to be abused. Even when doing rational reasoning we end up choosing being a part of something even if it damages us.
Social Skills
Predictability Value-exchange
Delayed reciprocity Exposed vulnerability
Communication Group dynamics
Conflict managing
Cooperative learning Productive learning
Experience-based learning
Lifelong Learning
Social Skills
If we can establish trust in a trustworthy setting (our training) this also creates opportunity to prove to be trustworthy.
This provides a platform to be able to connect both short termly and long termly to others.
By training in connecting we try to establish a solid ground for action in an autonomous mode in different social settings and give opportunity to trust and to be trusted on.
Predictability * Value-exchange Delayed reciprocity * Exposed vulnerability
Communication Group dynamics Conflict
managing
Cooperative learning Productive leaarning
Experience-based learning
Lifelong learning
Social Skills
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