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    Life skills are abilities that help humans deal with the demands of life, such as communication, problem-solving, and decision-making. They originated from initiatives promoting health, education, and children's rights in the 1980s and 1990s. Life skills are important because they facilitate personal and national development by enabling people to make optimal use of their knowledge and skills. Key areas of life skills include active listening, effective communication, interpersonal skills, problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking. Life skills can be applied in education and development programs.

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    Life skills are abilities that help humans deal with the demands of life, such as communication, problem-solving, and decision-making. They originated from initiatives promoting health, education, and children's rights in the 1980s and 1990s. Life skills are important because they facilitate personal and national development by enabling people to make optimal use of their knowledge and skills. Key areas of life skills include active listening, effective communication, interpersonal skills, problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking. Life skills can be applied in education and development programs.

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    What Are Life Skills

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    Life skills are abilities that help humans deal with the demands of life, such as communication, problem-solving, and decision-making. They originated from initiatives promoting health, education, and children's rights in the 1980s and 1990s. Life skills are important because they facilitate personal and national development by enabling people to make optimal use of their knowledge and skills. Key areas of life skills include active listening, effective communication, interpersonal skills, problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking. Life skills can be applied in education and development programs.

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    WHAT ARE LIFE SKILLS

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     Definition of Life Skills


     Origin of Life Skills
     Why We need Life Skills
     Areas of Life Skills
     Application of Life Skills
    Definition

     Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable humans
    to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life. This concept is
    also termed as psychosocial competency
     Skills that function for well-being and aid individuals to develop into active
    and productive members of their communities are considered as life skills.
    Origin of LIFE SKILLS
     In 1986, the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion recognized Life-Skills in terms of making
    better health choices.
     The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) linked Life Skills to education.
     The 1990 Jomtien Declaration on 'Education for All' took this vision further as essential learning
    tools.
     The 2000 Dakar World Education Conference stated "an education that includes learning to
    know, to do, to live together and to be", as Life-Skills .
     Life-Skills Based Education has introduced by
     UNGASS on HIV/AIDS (2001)
     UNGASS on Children (2002)
     World Youth Report (2003)
     World Program of Human Rights Education (2004), UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (2005)
     World Development Report (2007).
     The World Health Organization has identified Some core cross-cultural areas of life skills.
     Source:posted by RESHEF PARMAR on http://resheflsedu.blogspot.com/meaningtypes-history-of-life-skills.html
    Why Soft Skills
     Growth Of Nation Growth and Development of the PEOPLE
     Optimum Use of Human Resource

    Knowledge

    Is it Enough Process of Education

    Scope of Development and Growth in Education process Challenges

    LIFE SKILLS
    Areas of Life Skills

     Active Listening
     Effective Communication & Interpersonal Skills
     Problem Solving
     Decision Making
     Critical Thinking
    Listening Skills

     Listening is the most important communication


    skill
     We probably spend more time using our Listening
    Skills than any other kind of skill
     Like other skills, Listening takes practice
     Real Listening is an active process
     Listening requires attention
    Critical Thinking
    Application of Life Skills

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