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This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of
scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization,
curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education
settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are
implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both
qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how
life skills do or do not impact young women's and men's lives in
various contexts. Specifically, it examines the nature and
importance of life skills, and how they are taught. It looks at the
synergies and differences between life skills educational
programmes and the way in which they promote social and emotional
learning, vocational/employment education, and health and sexuality
education. Finally, it explores how life skills may be better
incorporated into education and how such education can address
structures and relations of power to help youth achieve desired
future outcomes, and goals set out in the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs). Life skills education has gained considerable
attention by education policymakers, researchers and educators as
being the sine qua non for later achievements in life. It is nearly
ubiquitous in global and national education policies, including the
SDGs, because life skills are regarded as essential for a diverse
set of purposes: reducing poverty, achieving gender equality,
promoting economic growth, addressing climate change, fostering
peace and global citizenship, and creating sustainable and healthy
communities. Yet, to achieve these broad goals, questions persist
as to which life skills are important, who needs to learn them, how
they can be taught, and how they are best measured. This book
addresses these questions.
Juanita was seventeen years old and pregnant with her first child
when she began an activity that would ""open"" her mind. Living in
a remote Garifuna village in Honduras, Juanita had dropped out of
school after the sixth grade. In 1996, a new educational program,
Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial (Tutorial Learning System or SAT),
was started in her community. The program helped her see the world
differently and open a small business. Empowering women through
education has become a top priority of international development
efforts. Erin Murphy-Graham draws on more than a decade of
qualitative research to examine the experiences of Juanita and
eighteen other women who participated in the SAT program. Their
narratives suggest the simple yet subtle ways education can spark
the empowerment process, as well as the role of men and boys in
promoting gender equality. Drawing on in-depth interviews and
classroom observation in Honduras and Uganda, Murphy-Graham shows
the potential of the SAT program to empower women through expanded
access and improved quality of secondary education in Latin America
and Africa. An appendix provides samples of the classroom lessons.
Juanita was seventeen years old and pregnant with her first child
when she began an activity that would ""open"" her mind. Living in
a remote Garifuna village in Honduras, Juanita had dropped out of
school after the sixth grade. In 1996, a new educational program,
Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial (Tutorial Learning System or SAT),
was started in her community. The program helped her see the world
differently and open a small business. Empowering women through
education has become a top priority of international development
efforts. Erin Murphy-Graham draws on more than a decade of
qualitative research to examine the experiences of Juanita and
eighteen other women who participated in the SAT program. Their
narratives suggest the simple yet subtle ways education can spark
the empowerment process, as well as the role of men and boys in
promoting gender equality. Drawing on in-depth interviews and
classroom observation in Honduras and Uganda, Murphy-Graham shows
the potential of the SAT program to empower women through expanded
access and improved quality of secondary education in Latin America
and Africa. An appendix provides samples of the classroom lessons.
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