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Perspectives on Competence: Research on Definitions of Social Competence.
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O'Malley, J. Michael – 1975
The purposes of this paper are: (1) to identify uses of the term social competence for preschool and early school children, with origins directly in research, and (2) to formulate a definition of social competence reflecting consensus across three different research perspectives. From an ethnological perspective, social competence consists of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research