Social Intelligence and Life Skills

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LIFE SKILLS OF SECONDARY TEACHER EDUCATION STUDENTS The process of education is considered so important in our society. It has become an integral part of our lives in the twenty first century with a special focus on life skills. As we are living in a society in which special skills, in particular, social abilities are needed to build and to maintain the community. People have evolved special competencies to allow them to survive and to reproduce. As society becomes more and more complex, its intellectual competence becomes more sophisticated. Their competence is the social intelligence and can be defined as intelligence that lies behind one’s group interactions and behaviours. This type of intelligence is closely related to cognition and life skills. Students who received lessons in social and emotional skills improved every measure of positive behaviours such as classroom behaviours, discipline, punctuality, attendance, began liking school, able to attain good relationships, as well as enriched their life skills.
Social Intelligence
Social intelligence is the ability to understand others and “act wisely in human relations”. Social intelligence is different from academic ability and a key element in what makes people succeed in life. Social intelligence falls into general category; the human capacity to understand what is happening in the world and responding to that understanding in a personally and socially effective manner. In order to confine the notion of social intelligence we are not including within it all positive human attributes making it as a king of solution for the maladies of the world. It is an important quality in human beings which makes them capable of awareness and understanding the broadest, possible terms. Not more financial or interpersonal success, but understanding that makes it possible to make their lives worthwhile and in making their society better during their life time and

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