美国社会能力培养研究与启示

A Study on Social Competence Training in the U.S. and its Enlightenment

作为儿童能力发展的重要组成部分 ,社会能力不仅影响着儿童的个性发展和社会适应性 ,而且还影响着儿童未来的社会生活。从 2 0世纪 70年代开始 ,社会能力培养的研究受到美国教育界的高度重视 ,关于社会能力的理论和实践不断得到拓展 ,并在促进儿童的社会性发展上起到了重要的作用。本文着重介绍美国社会能力培养研究的发展以及社会能力研究发展的新特点 ,并在此基础上进一步探讨美国社会能力培养研究对我国素质教育的启示。

As an important part of children's ability development, social competence has an impact not only on personality development and social adaptation of children, but also on the future social life of children. Since the 1970s, studies on social competence training have been stressed by the American educational communities, and theories as well as practices of social competences have continuously been well developed, and these studies have played an important role in children's social development. This paper mainly introduces the development of social competence training in the U.S. and the new features of this research area, followed by exploring the enlightenment of those studies on quality education in China.