CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF IMMEDIACY IN THE PEDAGOGICAL RELATIONSHIP THROUGH SELF-NARRATIVES

• Authors: Joana Manarte , Amélia Lopes , Fátima Pereira
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Pedagogical communication is an action wherein the body, being a part of a relational whole, performs a fundamental role. A bibliographical survey of studies on the interaction between teacher and student confirms that there is a strong correlation between the teacher’s nonverbal behaviour and the students’ level of motivation and proficiency. Nonverbal communication constitutes an indispensable vehicle for the teacher’s affections, intentions and attitudes towards her students, and vice-versa. Nonverbal elements are potential promoters of immediacy, i.e., the sensation of proximity between interacting agents, which is created by the communicative behaviours. The goal of this paper is to explore some relevant aspects for the empirical study of immediacy in a pedagogical environment. It starts off from the researcher’s self-narrative based upon reports of her pedagogical experiences and proceeds with an elaboration of communicative immediacy and its impact upon the pedagogical relationship and the narrator herself.

Keywords

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PEDAGOGICAL RELATIONSHIP; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; BODY; IMMEDIACY; PEDAGOGY; COMMUNICATION

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 209 – 225

Contributors

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Joana Manarte

• Psychology and Educational Sciences, Educational Research and Intervention Centre, Rua Alfredo Allen, 4200-135, Porto, Portugal

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Amélia Lopes

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Fátima Pereira