Social Skills Training: Critique, and Future Development

Hollin, Clive R.; Trower, Peter

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-034048-7.50018-9

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“…Hollin & Trower (1986) make an important point in this regard in their suggestion that inner thoughts and dialogue can be usefully seen as covert behaviour, to some degree amenable to scrutiny and change where appropriate. In essence, we use the practice and analysis of behaviour simply as a vehicle for access to both the refinement of overt behavioural performance, and the development of information processing and perceptual dimensions of skill or competence.…”

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confidence: 98%

Managing and Participating in Group Discussion: a microtraining approach to the communication skill development of students in Higher Education

Martin

Campbell

1999

Teaching in Higher Education

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AS a result of the recommendations of the Dearing Committee (1997) it is likely that academic programmes of study in universities and colleges will pay more attention to the development of students' communicative abilities. Furthermore, as such institutions seek innovative approaches to learning and teaching and students become increasingly obliged to take responsibility for their own learning, it is evident that students' ability to communicate is central to higher education experience. One area that is likely to receive particular attention is that of training students to operate effectively in groups, an increasingly common activity as they work collaboratively on academic projects. We suggest that it is important for those who offer such training to share their experience with others. In this way they will contribute to the exploration of the usefulness of such programmes. We offer one contribution to this dialogue by describing an approach to training developed at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).

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Section: Microtraining: Theoretical Principles and Defining Featuresmentioning

confidence: 98%