THE IMPACT OF VIDEO-WATCHING ACTIVITIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN
THE IMPACT OF VIDEO-WATCHING ACTIVITIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: Social behavior refers to children's abilities of forming social functional relationships with other children or adults from their lives. In other words, the formation of these abilities aims at facilitating positive interactions adequate to social norms, understanding appropriate behavior in groups, caring for other people's needs, developing social skills and learning how to manage one's feelings. Children learn through direct and indirect observation, through verbalization that each social context has certain rules whose role is to prevent the appearance of some problems of behavior in society. In general terms, prosocial behavior refers to voluntary actions that are intended to help or benefit another individual or group of individuals. As such, prosocial behaviors are presented in terms of their intended consequences for others. The paper aims to study the impact on the formation and the development of prosocial behavior through the video-watching method in children from kindergarten and primary school. The video-watching activities are developed within the following disciplines: education for society (man and society development area) for kindergarten and personal development (counseling and orientation curricular area) and civic education (man and society curricular area) for primary school. By general definition, the common element of all these disciplines is the formation and development of prosocial behavior. The video-watching activities offer the basis for conversations, case studies, detailed explanations, debates, personal reflections etc. The study proposes a series of items based on specific literature, included in a questionnaire applied to a sample of one hundred kindergarten and primary school teachers. The data obtained are processed using the SPSS analysis. The results of the research can be of use to teachers who want to improve the process of prosocial behavior development in their students

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