Socio-emotional skills in publications in education in the last five years: a brief review

Abstract

The concept of competence is composed of our rational and emotional actions influenced by sociocultural factors. Competence combined with the control of emotions in social situations facilitates the resolution of conflicts. The objective of this work was to make a bibliographic review on emotional competencies in education present in publications in the last five years. The method used was a brief literature review on socio-emotional competencies in publications on education between 2017 and 2021, in Portuguese, in Google Scholar search databases. It is necessary to identify which competencies are needed and which can be developed in the school environment. Educational policies seem to require the inclusion of socio-emotional competencies in basic education curricula, but there is a lack of training of teachers. The restructuring of curricula should also cover daily teaching situations that were possible to be carried out, from the reorganization of pedagogical spaces, aligned with teaching strategies based on competencies. The modernization of curricula with the inclusion of socio-emotional competencies provides students with integral (omnilateral) training. In Professional and Technological Education (EPT)[6] technical-professional knowledge should be beyond content training, preparing students to face real situations of the future profession. Adultlife, and life at work, requires behaviors and knowledge that the student will use in his social and professional practice, outside the school environment.