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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.

Study & learning skills: general --- Careers guidance --- Schools --- Curriculum planning & development --- Social issues & processes --- The self, ego, identity, personality --- examining life skills education scholarships --- life skills for adolescents in developing countries --- linking life skills education and social-emotional learning --- life skills for 'at risk' youth --- social justice based approach to life skills --- empirical cases of life skills education --- employability and soft skills curriculum development --- career skills as education --- Open Access --- Educació --- Habilitats socials --- Joves --- Grups d'edat --- Adolescents --- Joves internautes --- Treball social amb els joves --- Serveis socials per als joves --- Competències socials --- Relacions humanes --- Socialització --- Acceptació social --- Mediació escolar --- Escolarització --- Civilització --- Art en l'educació --- Autoaprenentatge --- Autogestió pedagògica --- Autonomia de l'alumne --- Avaluació educativa --- Ciències de l'educació --- Competències bàsiques en educació --- Comunicació en l'educació --- Diferències entre sexes en l'educació --- Discriminació en l'educació --- Dones en l'educació --- Educació afectiva --- Educació ambiental --- Educació clàssica --- Educació cívica --- Educació comparada --- Educació comunista --- Educació d'adults --- Educació i lleure --- Educació en valors --- Educació familiar --- Educació integral --- Educació islàmica --- Educació militar --- Educació del consumidor --- Educació i desenvolupament econòmic --- Educació permanent --- Educació sanitària --- Educació STEM --- Educació tecnològica --- Educació viària --- Educadors --- Escola a casa --- Estadística educativa --- Estudiants --- Estudis a l'estranger --- Exàmens --- Experiències educatives --- Extensió universitària --- Fotografia en l'ensenyament --- Mètodes d'estudi --- Pedagogia --- Psicologia de l'aprenentatge --- Ràdio en l'ensenyament --- Relacions família-escola --- Sexisme en l'educació --- Sistema educatiu --- Sistemes de comunicacions mòbils en l'educació --- Sociologia de l'educació --- Teatre en l'ensenyament --- Teatre escolar --- Televisió en l'ensenyament --- Treball de grup en educació --- Universitats --- Vídeo en l'ensenyament --- Associacions de mares i pares d'alumnes --- Coeducació --- Col·laboració universitat-empresa --- Disciplina mental --- Ensenyament --- Erudició --- Escoles --- Formació --- Legislació educativa --- Anàlisi de tasques en educació

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of studies on youth agency across various parts of the world. It explores diverse perspectives on education, citizenship and future livelihoods, modernity and tradition, gender equality, and social norms and transformations as they relate to how young people construct their agency. Drawing on case studies of young women and men from Africa, the Americas and South Asia, this book illustrates the different ways in which education affects youth’s beliefs, engagement, action, and identities in broader historical, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Chapters argue for education as a potential force for equity and explore how both formal schooling and informal educational programs may challenge and inspire youth through individual and collective action to change the social conditions affecting their lives and their communities. The global nature of this book gives readers a deeper understanding of youth agency as a dynamic process in relation to changing economic, political, and social environments. Featured topics include: The role of community context and relationships in shaping U.S. youth’s citizen agency. Malala Yousafzai and media narratives of girls’ education within Islam and modernity. Social capital, sexual relationships, and agency for Tanzanian youth. Boys’ agency toward higher education in urban Jamaica. Children’s economic agency in Kanchipuram, India. Vocational training and agency among Kenyan youth. Education and Youth Agency is an essential resource for researchers, educators, practitioners, and undergraduate and graduate students across such related disciplines as developmental psychology, international and comparative education, family studies as well as public health, educational policy and politics, youth studies, and social policy.

Developmental psychology. --- Youth --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Developmental Psychology. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Family. --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Psychology --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Families. --- Families—Social aspects. --- Family --- Families --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Education, Comparative --- Education --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- History

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of studies on youth agency across various parts of the world. It explores diverse perspectives on education, citizenship and future livelihoods, modernity and tradition, gender equality, and social norms and transformations as they relate to how young people construct their agency. Drawing on case studies of young women and men from Africa, the Americas and South Asia, this book illustrates the different ways in which education affects youth’s beliefs, engagement, action, and identities in broader historical, social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Chapters argue for education as a potential force for equity and explore how both formal schooling and informal educational programs may challenge and inspire youth through individual and collective action to change the social conditions affecting their lives and their communities. The global nature of this book gives readers a deeper understanding of youth agency as a dynamic process in relation to changing economic, political, and social environments. Featured topics include: The role of community context and relationships in shaping U.S. youth’s citizen agency. Malala Yousafzai and media narratives of girls’ education within Islam and modernity. Social capital, sexual relationships, and agency for Tanzanian youth. Boys’ agency toward higher education in urban Jamaica. Children’s economic agency in Kanchipuram, India. Vocational training and agency among Kenyan youth. Education and Youth Agency is an essential resource for researchers, educators, practitioners, and undergraduate and graduate students across such related disciplines as developmental psychology, international and comparative education, family studies as well as public health, educational policy and politics, youth studies, and social policy.

Developmental psychology --- Psychology --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Teaching --- Educational sciences --- vergelijkende pedagogiek --- psychologie --- onderwijs --- gezinssociologie --- ontwikkelingspsychologie --- gezin --- familie --- onderwijsonderzoek