Okul Öncesi Dönemde Duygusal Becerilerin Geliştirilmesi

Abstract

One of the important tasks of preschool education institutions is to support children’s emotional development. Supporting emotional development enables the individual to have place in society as a social being by helping child acquire emotional skills important for everyday life human relationships. In this aspect, emotional skills have important role in social development. Since, development of many social skills and prevention of behavior problems depend on strengthening of the child’s emotional development. Insufficient acquisition of emotional skills lays a foundation for behavior problems observed especially during first and middle childhood periods. Helping children acquire emotional skills starting from preschool years and maintaining emotional skill education in following years will make a great contribution to child’s learning life and socialization. It is believed that this study will provide a basis for future studies focusing on children’s emotional skill development and for families’ and teachers’ daily life practices. For this reason, in this study, practices for developing preschool children’s emotional skills were focused and suggestions were made for teachers and families regarding the issue.