Influences of nonverbal comunicative behavior of professors into the classroom: nursing professors' point of view

Abstract

In the interaction teacher-student, the teacher has an important paper and his good acting depends mainly on thé conscience and ability that he has in the communication, the nonverbal. This work had as objective to verify the educational of Nursing, the knowledge and the importance attributed to the nonverbal signs in its interaction in class room close to. It is an exploratory study, in the qualitative line and 25 teachers were interviewed in the Nursing School of USP, in October to December of 1999. As results, we could verify that facilitators of the interaction are considered in class room: some teacher's characteristics, student's characteristics, the contact regularity, the type of exposed content and the own communication.