The Ugandan Life Skills Initiative

Health Education - Tập 101 Số 1 - Trang 15-22 - 2001
MartinBuczkiewicz1, RachelCarnegie2
1Martin Buczkiewicz is Chief Executive, of Tacade, Salford, UK.
2Rachel Carnegie is an Education Consultant, and an adviser with the Child‐to‐Child Trust at London University’s Institute of Education, London, UK.

Tóm tắt

This report analyses the development of the Life Skills Initiative for young people in Uganda. This initiative seeks to strengthen health education in schools by developing pupils’ Life Skills, such as assertiveness, decision making and effective communication, to enable them to translate their health knowledge into practice. In the context of HIV/AIDS, Life Skills are seen as one of the young people’s principal protections against infection. Life Skills education requires a participatory, active learning approach, which presents a challenge to Ugandan schools with their huge classes and didactic teaching styles. The report explores how this challenge is being met, through the school system, and through other channels, including non‐government organisations, the mass media and the health services.

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Health Education

Tập 101 Số 1

15-22

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