Examine The Effect of Attunement on The Development of Task Conflict Resolution Skills
Keywords:
Attunement, Conflict Resolution Skills, Social SkillsAbstract
Teacher attunement is about teachers’ being able to understand and empathize with the psychological experiences, worldviews, perspectives, motivations, learning capacities, skill levels, strengths, weaknesses, interests, affiliations, and affective states of students. Maladjustment of students in our society is a serious challenge for parents and teachers. Teacher’s Attunement Strategy is used to learn and regulate students’ social skills and conflict resolutions skills by developing an empathetic bond between teachers and students. The present study has been conducted to assess the effectiveness of teacher’s attunement strategy for development of social skills among elementary school students. The objectives of the study were (1) Examine the effect of attunement on the development of task conflict resolution skills. The study was an experimental in nature pretest post-test control group design was used for experiment. The sixty grade 6th students studying in elementary schools were selected as participants of the study. Thirty students were taken as control group and thirty students for experimental group through random sampling. Experimental group was taught through attunement strategy and the control group was taught through traditional teaching strategies for a period of eight weeks. The study was conducted in a government school of Lahore city, Pakistan. The data collected through pretest, posttest, and gain scores were analyzed statistically. Findings of the study reveal that initially the experimental and the control group were same. A significant difference was found in the mean score of the control group and experimental group for posttest. The experimental group out performed in posttest as compared to the control group. Findings of the study reveal a significant positive effect of teacher’s attunement on social development of elementary school students. Therefore, on the basis of findings of the study it can be concluded that teacher’s attunement develops social skills among grade 6th students. It is recommended that teacher’s attunement strategy may be used in government as well as private school to develop social skills among elementary school students.
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