scholarly journals Life Skill Development and Transfer beyond Sport

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Agnew ◽  
Kathryn Jackson ◽  
Shane Pill ◽  
Christine Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Life Skill Development ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Skills Education ◽  
Life Skills Education

AbstractThe aim of this research was to investigate the current life skills education programs offered by the Australian Football League (AFL) for elite footballers in order to determine the retention of life skill knowledge and transfer beyond sport. Life skill education in sport is an increasing phenomenon. Life skills sport programs are capable of delivering positive outcomes when nurtured through a deliberately designed curriculum and purposeful teaching strategies. However, it is not known how life skills are learned and importantly what the impact of life skills education on long term behavioural changes is. It is apparent from the literature that there is a need to identify how knowledge is acquired and importantly retained through life skills education programs. This was a qualitative research project from a life history perspective. Twenty footballers who had been delisted from an elite Australian football club and had subsequently returned to a South Australian state-based football club took part in semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed through an inductive thematic analysis. Two themes emerged from the data: football related development and holistic development. It was clear that football clubs placed importance on the development of life skills that transfer beyond the sport. However, given the footballers in this research have not fully transferred into life after sport, their perception of the broader transferability of their life-skill development beyond sport is limited. This research concludes that the current format of life skill education (delivering content) that the players in this study were exposed to was not effective because the players failed to be able to make connections from the program to life outside of football. Therefore, the programs are unlikely to have any long-term benefit to player health and well-being during their post-elite football life.

scholarly journals Positive Youth Development Life Skills Gained at the Iowa 4-H Youth Conference

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-76
Author(s):  
Brenda S. Allen ◽  
Brenda J. Lohman
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Leadership Communication ◽  
Retrospective Pretest ◽  
Life Skill Development

Research suggests 4-H programs build Life Skills such as leadership, communication, citizenship and learning. However, 4-H programs vary from long-term on-going experiences to shorter, more intense opportunities. This paper discusses a program evaluation articulating the life skill development of participants in a 3-day residential State 4-H Conference on a Midwestern college campus. The Life Skills assessed were in the areas of leadership, citizenship, communication, and learning as part of overall Life Skill development. Participants were youth ages 14-18 years. A retrospective pretest-posttest was used to evaluate skill development and understanding. Analysis, including paired sample t-tests, indicated growth in each of the 12 common outcome measures evaluated. This study supports the importance of purposeful planning and youth engagement in the learning process to achieve desired life skill outcomes.

scholarly journals Students’ Perceptions of Life Skill Development in Project-Based Learning Schools

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Meyer ◽  
Scott Wurdinger
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Life Skill Development ◽  
Learning Schools

<p>This research aimed to examine students’ perceptions of their life skills while attending project-based learning (PBL) schools. The study focused on three questions including: 1) What are students’ perceptions of their development of life skills in project-based learning schools? 2) In what ways, if any, do students perceive an increase in their life skill development over a one-year period of time? 3) What relationship, if any, is there between grade level and students’ perceptions of their life skills? The subjects were 275 6-12 students from two project-based learning charter schools in Minnesota. One school was located in a rural location; the other in an urban location. The triangulating data collection methods included a Likert-scale survey, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups. Quantitative analysis using SPSS were used to analyze the survey data. Qualitative analysis methods used were coding and identification of emergent themes. Qualitative results showed perceptions of most improved skills as time management, collaboration, communication, and self-directedness. Quantitative data results showed most improved skills within an academic year as responsibility, problem-solving, self-directedness, and work ethic. Self-directedness was the single skill that was evident in all data results. The results showed students’ perceptions of their life skills were positive and that project-based learning helped them develop multiple life skills including, but not limited to communication, collaboration, problem-solving, responsibility, and time management. Implications of this research suggest that project-based learning has a positive influence on students’ life skills development across 6-12 grade levels and helps prepare them to be successful in the 21<sup>st</sup> century global community and economy.</p>

scholarly journals Significance Of Life Skills Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravindra Prajapati ◽  
Bosky Sharma ◽  
Dharmendra Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Social Acts ◽  
Skills Education ◽  
Life Skills Education

Adolescence is a period when the intellectual, physical, social, emotional and all the capabilities are very high, but, unfortunately, most of the adolescents are unable to utilize their potential to maximum due to various reasons.  They face many emerging issues such as global warming, famines, poverty, suicide, population explosion as well as other issues like alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual abuse, smoking, juvenile delinquency, anti-social acts, etc. that have an adverse effect on them and others too, to a large extent. The cut-throat competition, unemployment, lack of job security, etc. are some of the major concerns for the educated and as a result, they are caught in the mad race.  This new challenge requires immediate and effective responses from a socially responsible system of education. ‘Education’ is important, but education to support and live life better is more important. It has been felt that life skills education bridges the gap between basic functioning and capabilities. It strengthens the ability of an individual to meet the needs and demands of the present society and helps in dealing with the above issues in a manner to get desired behavior practical. Imparting life skill training through inculcating life skill education will help youth to overcome such difficulties in life. The present paper focuses on the importance of life skills education and the benefits of imparting life skill education in our curriculum i.e. developing social, emotional & thinking skills in students, as they are the important building blocks for a dynamic citizen, who can cope up with future challenges, and survive well.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION AS CHARACTER BUILDING

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Fajar Defitrika ◽  
Fitri Nur Mahmudah
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Character Building ◽  
Skills Education ◽  
Life Skills Education

The industrial era 4.0 requires that every individual must have superior competence and wise morals. Life skill education is an effective strategy to face the XXI century competition. However, there has been no development in line with the demands, resulting in much unemployment in Indonesia. Character education is encouraged to maintain and strengthen the culture and character of the nation. However, in reality, character education has not yet integrated into all school-based development programs. This research explores the development of character education based on life skill education at Pondok Pesantren Modern Muhammadiyah Boarding School (PPM MBS) Yogyakarta. This qualitative research uses an ethnographic approach.  Researchers' data is through the interview, observation, and documentation techniques—data analysis process with data reduction stages, data presentation, and conclusion. Triangulation sources and techniques used as a test of data validity. This study's findings show the strengthening of character education through life skills education orienting on self-development and boarding schools' cultural development. This study's findings recommend various life skill education programs that can develop and character education strategies in formal schools.

DEVELOPMENT TRENDS AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE LIVING VALUES AND LIFE SKILLS PROGRAMS IN VIETNAMESE SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (12) ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Thu Tran Thi Le
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Values Education ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Life Skills Programs ◽  
Skills Education ◽  
Life Skills Education

Living values and life skills education has been popularly carried out in Vietnam over the two decades. A large number of in-depth studies on living values and life skills have been conducted and many of the research findings applied. Various living values and\or life skills education programs have been translated and piloted in Vietnamese schools nationwide. This paper reviews the existing approaches, concepts and education programs of living values and life skills in the period of 2000-2020. Previous approaches tend to be mainly separate: living values education or life skills education, very few programs clearly integrate the living values education with life skills education. The review results show that currently the integrated approach to the education of living values and life skills is selected by many educational programs. The article also analyzes the development trends and sustainability of those programs in Vietnam.

scholarly journals Take an Adventure Bite

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Brandt ◽  
Christina Murray
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Nutrition Curriculum ◽  
Life Skill Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Comparison Data ◽  
Youth Behaviors

The Adventure Bites - Cooking with Kids program enhanced nutrition curriculum by including a Life Skill development focus and a family night - to improve youth nutrition behaviors. The data was collected using the WSU 4-H Life Skills pre-post youth evaluations, staff surveys, a parent retrospective pre-post survey, and comparison data from non-program sites. The results support adding Life Skills and family night events into youth nutrition curricula. There are opportunities to improve evaluation and do further testing, to determine what the individual impact of Life Skill development and/or individual impact of having family nights had on changes in youth behaviors regarding nutrition.

scholarly journals LIFE SKILL EDUCATION AND IT'S IMPLEMENTATION IN STUDY PROGRAMS ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirudin Amirudin ◽  
Iqbal Amar Muzaki
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Student Leadership ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
Skills Education ◽  
Life Skills Education

<pre>The era of globalization requires humans to have more expertise to work and be competitive. These pressures lead to issues of productivity, efficiency, level of competition, which demand increased performance and quality. In addition to the problem of educated unemployment, it turns out there are still many schools or institutions that have not yet implemented life skills education, so graduates do not have more expertise to develop. Islamic Education Study Program Faculty of Islamic Religion Unsika which is one of the institutions of higher education is obliged to equip students with life skills education, so that graduates are able to compete in the global arena. Life skill education which is most followed by students is the education of reading the Qur'an, practice recitations, practice of worship, basic training of student leadership, and training of preacher and preacher cadres.</pre>

scholarly journals Differences in the Experiences of Boys and Girls in a Camp Environment

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Margaret Miltenberger ◽  
Jane Jopling ◽  
Martha S. Garton
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Developmental Differences ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life Skill Development

Between the ages of nine and twelve, key developmental differences exist between genders. Boys’ and girls’ brains simply develop in a different sequence (Sax, 2007) and at a different rate (Hanlon, et al., 1999). Since the 1970’s a tendency toward gender blindness and a lack of understanding about the real developmental differences between boys and girls may have limited the ability of youth professionals to best serve all youth. This paper highlights a study of whether boys and girls differ in camp experience and in life skill development as a result of camp? Fifteen counties with 28 individual camps participated in the study which measured (1) camp experience; (2) targeted life skills, and (3) leadership skills. The results showed significant differences between girls and boys. Researchers recommend that gender differences no longer be ignored when programming and that camp activities and curriculum meet the developmental needs of both boys and girls.

STRATEGI PENGELOLAAN VOCATIONAL LIFE SKILL PADA PENDIDIKAN ISLAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Apri Wahyudi ◽  
Salamun ◽  
Abdul Hamid ◽  
Choirudin
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Islamic Schools ◽  
Implementation Time ◽  
Skills Education

Abstract Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menjelaskan strategi penelolaan vocational life skills pada pendidikan Islam. pendidikan keterampilan dilatarbelakangi sebagai upaya pendidikan Islam dalam menjawab kebutuhan masyarakat yang menginginkan peserta didik tidak hanya memiliki kemampuan ilmu tetapi juga keterampilan untuk bekal hidup di masyarakat. Pengelola program pendidikan keterampilan pada pendidikan Islam mencakup aspek planning, implementing, and evaluating. a) Perencanaan program pendidikan keterampilan di Sekolah Islam meliputi pendidikan keterampilan yang akan dilaksanakan, mengadakan sosialisasi, menentukan tujuan, menyebar angket, menentukan waktu pelaksanaan, kurikulum pendidikan keterampilan pilihan, menyiapkan sarana prasarana. b) Pelaksanaan meliputi: menyeleksi dan memilih Pembina (tutor) untuk mengampu mata pelajaran pendidikan keterampilan, membuat modul pendidikan keterampilan terkait materi yang akan di ajarkan pada masing-masing guru Pembina. c) Adapun evaluasi, meliputi: penilaian terhadap program pendidikan keterampilan apakah sudah sesuai dengan target visi, misi dan tujuan melalui evaluasi persemester dilakukan oleh seluruh dewan guru bersama kepala sekolah dan evaluasi tahunan dilakukan kepala sekolah, komite madrasah. Keywords: Vocational Life Skills, Strategi Pengelolaan, Pendidikan Islam Abstract This study aim to describe management education program vocational skills at the Islamic schools. The background behind the education skills is an effort to Islamic schools in responding to the needs of people who want learners to have not only capabilityin science but also in skills for the provision of life in the community. The managements of skills education programs in Islamic schools are planning, implementing, and evaluating. a) Planning for skills education programs in Islamic schools includes skills education to be implemented, conducting socialization, determining goals, distributing questionnaires, determining the implementation time, selected skills education curriculum, preparing facilities, and infrastructure. b) Implementation includes: selecting and selecting coaches (tutors) to teach skills education subjects, making skills education modules related to the material to be taught to each coach teacher. c) The evaluation includes: an assessment of the skills education program whether it is in accordance with the target vision, mission, and objectives through a semester evaluation carried out by the entire teacher board together with the principal and an annual evaluation carried out by the principal, madrasah committee Keywords: Vocational Life Skills, Management Strategies, Islamic Education

Life Skill Development and Transfer: “They’re Not Just Meant for Playing Sports”

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 643-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarkington J. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Skill Development ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Photo Elicitation ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Life Skill Development

Purpose: In response to the Grand Challenge of promoting the Healthy Development for All Youth, many programs aim to enhance the development and transfer of life skills. However, within sport-based positive youth development (PYD) programs, life skills are understood through adult-centric perspectives. To better serve youth, research is needed that explores life skills through the lived experiences of youth. Method: Thirteen youth, who met the purposive sampling criteria, participated in the study. Data were collected using two methods. Semi-structured interviews explored life skill development, while photo-elicitation interviews explored life skill transfer. Results: Findings illustrated youth developed, as well as transferred, a variety of intrapersonal and interpersonal life skills. Youth identified, defined, and applied life skills that were both explicitly taught by the program and others that were not. Conclusions: Findings can be used to inform the strategic design of sport-based PYD programs and intentional facilitative coaching practices of their staff.

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