Soft Skills Through the Prism of Primary School Teachers
COVID-19 and the expansion of distance learning pose new challenges to the educational system. Soft skills are imperative in this context, for childre.
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COVID-19 and the expansion of distance learning pose new challenges to the educational system. Soft skills are imperative in this context, for children's effective and adaptive learning. The following study aims to discover teachers' representations by identifying their common conceptual framework of soft skills in primary school. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with teachers. The teachers' comments helped identify and define a framework of soft skills that would help children learn effectively. The results illustrate that the lack of practice of soft skills activities depends on the teachers' perceptions of the importance of their role in transmitting disciplinary knowledge. The study concluded that the lack of a clear and shared vision of soft skills influences the representations and practice of teachers.
Keywords: Common referential, primary school, soft skills, teachers, teaching practices.
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