List of life skills
- personal skills (self-knowledge, values and abilities, etc.)
- emotional skills (emotional intelligence)
- psychosocial skills (interacting harmoniously)
- intercultural skills (interacting harmoniously in diversity)
- eco-citizen skills (interacting harmoniously as a citizen in favor of the common good and nature)
- reflexive skills (questioning, reflecting, discerning, anticipating)
- creative skills
(expressing oneself creatively, creatively solving all types of
problems – practical, conflictual or related to world issues).
They can and should be taught across disciplines, not as separate subjects. They develop throughout life.
Graines de Paix develops each of these life skills through its teaching resources, training courses and services. One comprehensive example is the Growing Up in Peace Collection, which makes these life skills explicit in every school activity, indicating the issues they address.
Cross-disciplinary skills in the Plan d’Etudes Romand
In the school system of French-speaking Switzerland, the term capacités transversales is defined by the Plan d’Etudes Romand (PER) (2011) as follows:
(Capacities that) enable students to improve their self-knowledge (and that) help optimize and regulate their learning.
They represent an important part of the background that every student needs to succeed in learning and to integrate into society and the workplace.
(They have an effect) on the organization of classroom work, the carrying out of activities or the management of teaching.
Source: Plan d’Études Romand website, page: Evaluation of student work.
The PER specifies cross-cutting skills abilities:
– collaborative skills (interpersonal skills)
– communication skills
– creative thinking and emotional management skills
– reflective thinking skills
– learning strategy skills.