Life skills: a proposal for a human formation ; Habilidades para la vida: una propuesta de formación humana

Life Skills is an initiative promoted by the World Health Organitation (WHO) as a strategy to prevent illnesses and subsequently, to promote health - understood not only as biological development but as human being vital improvement-. From the beginning, the education sector has been an essential ally for this proposal since the application of “Life Skills” is much more efficient when applying it on the population registered in the educational system than on those who eventually come to health centers. As far as schools, colleges and universities have come to assume “Life Skills” education, it has become a significant proposal for human integral education and education for citizenship. “Life Skills” education was particularly applied in Colombia in an Educational Foundation oriented to the quality education for underprivileged people where it participates and dialogues with Popular Education and Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm. After fifteen years of implementation, Colombian Education and Health Ministries’ executives have endorsed its importance in the generation of better school coexistence and better healthy life styles. In recent years some public policies and development plans have adopted “Life Skills” education strategies for personal and community transformation. ; Habilidades para la vida (HpV) es una iniciativa que ha sido impulsada por la OMS como una estrategia para prevenir de la enfermedad y, posteriormente, para promover la salud, entendida ella en su sentido amplio de desarrollo vital –y no sólo biológico– del ser humano. Desde un principio, el sector educativo ha sido un aliado fundamental para esta propuesta pues resulta más eficaz realizarla con la población inscrita en el sistema educativo que con quienes eventualmente llegaban a los Centros de Salud. Ahora bien, en la medida en que las escuelas, colegios y universidades la han venido asumiendo, HpV se ha convertido en una propuesta significativa de formación humana integral y la educación para la ciudadanía. Debido a su gestación en una ...