TEACHER’S VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION INTO CLASSROOM – NURSING GRADUATE STUDENT’S VISION

Abstract

The interaction between teacher and students, teachers have an important role and their good performance depends on consciousness and ability that they have in verbal and nonverbal communication. This work had the objective to verify near nursing graduate students aspects of teacher’s verbal and nonverbal communication that interfere in their interaction into the classroom. It is an exploratory, transversal and qualitative study that were interviewed a 15% of students of each year of two institutions in São Paulo city (a public college and a private college). The collect of figures were realized for a questionnaire in the first semester of 2001, and the figures ordered according to the purpose of analysis of contents for thematic approximation. We found how aspects that facilitate their interaction with the teacher the categories: teacher’s characteristics, student’s characteristics, regularity of contact and characteristics commons for teachers and students. Aspects that interfere into teacher communication: verbal and nonverbal dimension. They also related what they think about furniture disposition into the classroom, teacher’s clothes, teacher’s faces reaction, eye contact with students, adaptative gesture, tough between teacher and students, teacher’s voice, teacher’s paraverbal, interpersonal distance with students and teacher’s corporal position.

Keywords

• Nonverbal communication
• Interpersonal relations
• Nursing faculty
• Nursing students