Difficulties in Defining Social-Emotional Intelligence, Competences and Skills - a Theoretical Analysis and Structural Suggestion

Artikel

Demands related to the frequency of and time required for interactional tasks in everyday occupational routines are continuously growing. When it comes to qualifying a person’s ability to interact with others, two prototypical concepts are often used: social competences and emotional intelligence. In connection to discussions about curriculum standards in Germany, these are viewed as important attributes that should be taught, supported and if possible assessed in educational pathways toward an occupation. However, in looking for a generally approved and widely used definition, many problems arise on the inter-conceptual and intra-conceptual level, triggering implementation difficulties in educational curricula. This article highlights these difficulties by selecting five well-established key theories and comparing their communalities and differences. Analyzing definitions of intelligence, competences and skills, taking an action regulation perspective and highlighting the interdependence of social and emotional aspects, a structural system to facilitate the transfer into the educational context is proposed.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET) ; ISSN: 2197-8646 ; Volume: 2 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 59-84 ; Bremen: European Research Network in Vocational Education and Training (VETNET), European Educational Research Association

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: social competence ; emotional intelligence ; social skills ; educational curricula ; action regulation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Monnier, Moana
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): European Research Network in Vocational Education and Training (VETNET), European Educational Research Association
• (where): Bremen
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.13152/IJRVET.2.1.4
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/142442
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET