Teachers’ Ideas about their Appearance and Features of Non-Verbal Communication with Pupils During the Distance Learning

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of teachers’ attitude to their appearance and features of non-verbal communication with pupils, during in the distance learning. A comprehensive analysis of quantitative and qualitative indicators of teachers ‘ attitude to their appearance, the degree of satisfaction with various components of their appearance, such as face, body, expressive movements, is carried out. The ideas of teachers about the correspondence of their external appearance to age and professional role are described. The satisfaction with their appearance among teachers is compared depending on age. The level of reflection of teachers in relation to their external appearance and their readiness to change it are described. In addition, the article describes the results of a questionnaire aimed at identifying difficulties in non-verbal communication and interaction, between teachers, pupils and parents that arise in the conditions of remote work.

Features of non-verbal communication in the process of online counseling and distance learning

“…The authors note that the solution to this problem is not so much the analysis and description of the new phenomenology of the psychology of appearance, but the determination of how the "digital being" of people, the emerging "new subjectivity", affect such fundamental phenomena as assessments, selfesteem, satisfaction and concern with appearance, perfectionism aimed at appearance [12,13,14,15]. In our previous studies devoted to the attitude of educators to their appearance, we found that despite the fact that in the conditions of the need to use distance learning, they are diagnosed with an average degree of satisfaction with their appearance, they note that they have an extremely negative attitude towards video filming [9]. According to our study, 54 out of 80 educators noted an extremely negative attitude towards video and photography; they wrote that they do not like it when others talk about their appearance.…”

“…Considering the problem of non-verbal communication in the process of distance interaction, it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that it can be analyzed in two directions. On the one hand, in the aspect of constructing one's own "visual image", which transmits to the subjects of interaction information about personal and psycho-emotional characteristics, the system of attitudes towards oneself and what is happening [6,7,8,9,10,11]. And from this side, it is important to understand what parameters of nonverbal communication come to the fore in the process of interpretation.…”

“…All this creates the impossibility of group dynamics, and, accordingly, the development of the class as a team, which further causes difficulties in mutual understanding, both between parents and between parents and an educator [9].…”

“…are a reflection of individual personality traits, emotional states [22], status-role positions, attitudes towards oneself and another. Patterns of non-verbal behavior can serve as a source of information about the forms of response characteristic of clients, behavior in conflict, psycho-emotional reactions, health status, psycho-physiological state in the process of psychological work, attitude to what is happening [7][8][9]11]. Based on the studies of A.A. Bodalev, V.A.…”

Cognitive features and strategies for the meaning transfer of students in the process of online learning

“…The study allowed the author to identify thinking styles in joint mental activity: initiative, critical, managerial and practical thinking styles [19]. Russian researchers define analyticityholisticity as a type of thinking in a broad sense, as a worldview category [20], understanding analyticity and holisticity as types of mentality [21] inherent in Western (WEIRD) and non-Western (non-WEIRD) cultures, respectively [22].…”