Components Of Life Skills Analysis
3.2.2. Components of Life Skills
According to WHO (1997), there is a core set or components of skills that are at the heart of skills-based initiatives for the promotion of the health and well-being of children and adolescents. These are:
Decision making supports us to deal productively with decisions about our lives. This can have significances for health if young people actively make decisions about their actions in relation to health by weighing the different choices, and what effects different judgements may have.
Likewise, problem-solving enables us to deal productively with problems in our lives. Substantial problems that are left unsettled can cause mental stress and give rise to accompanying physical straining.
Creative thinking contributes …show more content…
Critical thinking will add to health by helping individuals to know and weigh the factors that affect attitudes and behaviour, such as values, peer pressure, and the media.
Effective communication means that we are able to express ourselves, both verbally and non-verbally, in ways that are suitable to our cultures and situations. This means being able to express feelings and desires, but also needs and doubts. And it may mean being able to ask for advice and help in a time of …show more content…
He further said that as historian evidenced Ethiopia is a country which was not colonized except the five years brief period of occupation from 1935- 1941. Unlike Ethiopia most African countries get independence (1957-63). However, the education system of Ethiopia a country which was independent is similar to those who were under colony for long period of time (Tekeste2006:7). It is to mean that the implemented education system is Eurocentric like those countries under colony. The traditional institutions like churches and the upper class nobilities were in fear of the situation, because for them the education system implemented is not Ethiopianized and the students who passed through this educational system is more in favour of Western culture than their own((Ibid:
According to WHO (1997), there is a core set or components of skills that are at the heart of skills-based initiatives for the promotion of the health and well-being of children and adolescents. These are:
Decision making supports us to deal productively with decisions about our lives. This can have significances for health if young people actively make decisions about their actions in relation to health by weighing the different choices, and what effects different judgements may have.
Likewise, problem-solving enables us to deal productively with problems in our lives. Substantial problems that are left unsettled can cause mental stress and give rise to accompanying physical straining.
Creative thinking contributes …show more content…
Critical thinking will add to health by helping individuals to know and weigh the factors that affect attitudes and behaviour, such as values, peer pressure, and the media.
Effective communication means that we are able to express ourselves, both verbally and non-verbally, in ways that are suitable to our cultures and situations. This means being able to express feelings and desires, but also needs and doubts. And it may mean being able to ask for advice and help in a time of …show more content…
He further said that as historian evidenced Ethiopia is a country which was not colonized except the five years brief period of occupation from 1935- 1941. Unlike Ethiopia most African countries get independence (1957-63). However, the education system of Ethiopia a country which was independent is similar to those who were under colony for long period of time (Tekeste2006:7). It is to mean that the implemented education system is Eurocentric like those countries under colony. The traditional institutions like churches and the upper class nobilities were in fear of the situation, because for them the education system implemented is not Ethiopianized and the students who passed through this educational system is more in favour of Western culture than their own((Ibid: