Abstract
Awareness about values of communication skills and the necessity for their cultivation brought them into foreground of educational field. Thus, they are qualified as a basic framework for the creation of modern democratic, intercultural and open schools to the world. Communication is recognized as a basic social skill by the program P21 Framework for the 21st Century Learning and by thousands of teachers and hundreds of schools in the US and many other countries. Since communication skills are related to many aspects of modern Greek educational situation, such as teaching, school administration, evaluation and development of good interpersonal relationships, the main purpose of this paper is the presentation of a survey research about communicative behavior of secondary education teachers and school heads, the depiction and enhancement of their communication style and the assessment of their views in regards to importance of communication skills in carrying out their professional role. Results of the research showed that teachers recognize to themselves very good communication skills, including advocate active listening, collaboration development ability and empathy.
Highlights
Discussion about the concepts of “communication” and “education” contributes to the enhancement of the timeliness and importance of communication skills within democratic and creative schools of the 21st century
It was attempted to be investigated the views of participants (SE teachers and school heads) in relation to the way they perceive themselves in regards to their communication style, what communication skills or attributes they believe that they have and in what level they recognize them in relation to themselves, in order to be able later the assessment degree of each of them communication skills according to their own view about their own communication competence
Since the purpose of the research was to investigate the communication behavior of Secondary Education (SE) school heads and teachers, the analysis of demographics initially aimed to show if the sample was proportional to the total population of SE in Larisa prefecture or not and secondly, to leak out the results in en equal way to demographic elements, as they were related to independent variables of the research
Summary
Discussion about the concepts of “communication” and “education” contributes to the enhancement of the timeliness and importance of communication skills within democratic and creative schools of the 21st century. The systemic view of an educational organization Willke, 1997), the assessment of its behavior as a result of ongoing interactions indoor and outside; and the theory of triple-dependent its critical of the functions of feedback, balance and adaptation make dealing with educational issues interwoven with the communication role of each participant, either individually or collectively and communication skills in order, to speak one for absolute correlation and dependence of educational quality on the level of personal communication skills Raptis & Vitsilaki, 2007) The systemic view of an educational organization (Stamatis, 2012, 2015. Pasiardis, 2004. Willke, 1997), the assessment of its behavior as a result of ongoing interactions indoor and outside; and the theory of triple-dependent its critical of the functions of feedback, balance and adaptation make dealing with educational issues interwoven with the communication role of each participant, either individually or collectively and communication skills in order, to speak one for absolute correlation and dependence of educational quality on the level of personal communication skills (Saitis, 2014, 2008a, b, 2007. Katsaros, 2008. Raptis & Vitsilaki, 2007)
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