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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:
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self-regulated learning
productive learning
cooperative learning
experience-based learning
Learning in these and other approaches require social
skills.
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To master social skills have become a life necessity in a
society which is described as post-modern or latemodern (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.
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Our definition of social skills
Social 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
Conflict
management
Relational groupdynamic process
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Cooperation &
team skills
Communication
Conflict
management
Relational groupdynamic process
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 and
receiving recognition;
Conflict resolution / the ability to compromise
Group dynamic processes
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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
Conflict
management
Relational groupdynamic process
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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
Conflict
management
Relational groupdynamic process
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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
Conflict
management
Relational groupdynamic process
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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.
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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.
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Lifelong
Learning
Cooperative learning
Productive learning
Experience-based learning
Communication
Group dynamics
Conflict managing
Predictability
Value-exchange
Delayed reciprocity
Exposed vulnerability
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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.
Lifelong
learning
Cooperative learning
Productive leaarning
Experience-based learning
Communication
Group dynamics Conflict
managing
Predictability * Value-exchange
Delayed reciprocity * Exposed vulnerability
Social Skills