Developing social skills of pre-school and early-school children on the basis of transactional analysis assumptions. The characteristics of the Little Professor University programme

Abstract

The article presents the characteristics of The Little Professor University programme, whose aim is to support the development of social skills of pre-school and early-school children. The programme’s assumptions are based on the theoretical constructs of transactional analysis. The main objective of the programme is the development of its participants’ autonomy and preventing the use of passive strategies the way TA understands them. The text shows both a theoretical framework of the project, its practical realisation, and a general evaluation analysis of the first meeting cycle.

Keywords

• educational transactional analysis
• social skills
• autonomy
• passivity