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Nikolaos Neveskiotis – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2024
With individual, social, and emotional skills increasingly emerging as integral components of a comprehensive education, this scientific study aims to organize and summarize the range of different approaches found in the literature regarding the role and contribution of to the holistic development of students and adolescents. This study serves as…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Amanda Whittal; Isabell Ehringfeld; Paula Steinhoff; Oliver Rudolf Herber – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
There is a rising recognition of the crucial role self-care plays in managing heart failure (HF). Yet patients often have difficulties implementing ongoing self-care recommendations into their daily lives. There is also recognition of the importance of theory for successful intervention design, and understanding of key factors for implementation…
Descriptors: Intervention, Heart Disorders, Daily Living Skills, Foreign Countries
Zervogianni, Vanessa; Fletcher-Watson, Sue; Herrera, Gerardo; Goodwin, Matthew; Pérez-Fuster, Patricia; Brosnan, Mark; Grynszpan, Ouriel – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
A wide array of digital supports (such as apps) have been developed for the autism community, many of which have little or no evidence to support their effectiveness. A Delphi study methodology was used to develop a consensus on what constitutes good evidence for digital supports among the broader autism community, including autistic people and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Evidence Based Practice, Daily Living Skills
Learning and Work Institute, 2019
The Commission on Education and Employment Opportunities for Young People (Youth Commission) aims to find ways to improve education and employment opportunities for England's 16-24-year olds. The Commission's first report (see ED604277) identified five key challenges: (1) Better supporting 700,000 young people not in education, employment or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities, Educational Opportunities, Youth Opportunities
Shavit, Zohar – Journal of Jewish Education, 2016
Members of the Jewish Enlightenment movement and Jewish financial entrepreneurs undertook an active, conscious project to effect significant transformations in the Jewish habitus in German-speaking areas during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A symbiotic relationship allowed these groups to disseminate a new vision of Jewish society…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Judaism, Entrepreneurship
Rich-Gross, Denise A. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2014
There exists a need to examine the practice of pushing functional curriculum to the bottom of the list to teach students with intellectual disabilities (ID). This article discusses how students with these disabilities could better transition into society if they are instructed appropriately. The author further investigates the current practices in…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Daily Living Skills, Job Training, Evaluation Methods
Weichold, Karina; Tomasik, Martin J.; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Spaeth, Michael – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
In this study, the effectiveness of a life skills program to impede tobacco use in early adolescence was scrutinized. The focus was on the mediating role of yielding to peer pressure. The universal school-based life skills program IPSY (Information + Psychosocial Competence = Protection) against adolescent substance use was implemented over 3…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Program Effectiveness, Adolescent Attitudes, Prevention
Weichold, Karina – New Directions for Youth Development, 2014
IPSY (Information + Psychosocial Competence = Protection) is a universal life skills program aiming at the promotion of generic intra-and interpersonal life skills, substance specific skills (for example, resistance skills), school bonding, knowledge, and the prevention of substance misuse with a focus on alcohol and tobacco in youth. This program…
Descriptors: Etiology, Prevention, Daily Living Skills, Evidence
Heyl, Vera; Wahl, Hans-Werner – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010
This article reports on a study that investigated the role of cognitive resources in the everyday functioning of 121 older adults who were visually impaired and 150 sighted older adults, with a mean age of 82 years. Cognitive performance and everyday functioning were most strongly related in the group who were visually impaired. The authors…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Older Adults, Visual Impairments, Daily Living Skills
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2016
The Biennial Report presents a selection of UNESCO-UNEVOC's activities during 2014 and 2015. The activities contributed to UNESCO's sectoral priorities and programmatic objectives and assisted Member States to provide equitable, inclusive and quality education and promote lifelong learning for sustainable development. Importantly, the selected…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Guidelines, Administrative Principles, Network Analysis
Maruska, K.; Morgenstern, M.; Isensee, B.; Hanewinkel, R. – Health Education Research, 2010
Effects of the life skills programme "Eigenstandig werden" (Becoming independent) on life skills and on identified antecedents of adolescent health risk behaviour, childhood internalizing and externalizing behaviour were tested in an elementary school setting. A quasi-experimental controlled trial with five repeated measures was…
Descriptors: Risk, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Adolescents
Ng, Khar Thoe; Parahakaran, Suma; Febro, Rhea; Weisheit, Egbert; Lee, Tan Luck – Open Praxis, 2013
Student-centred learning approaches like collaborative learning are needed to facilitate meaningful learning among self-motivated lifelong learners within educational institutions through interorganizational Open and Distant Learning (ODL) approaches. The purpose of this study is to develop blended learning platforms to promote sustainable living,…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Sustainability, Questionnaires, Teacher Surveys
Cawley, John; Spiess, C. Katharina – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
This paper investigates the association between obesity and skill attainment in early childhood (aged 2-4 years). Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study are used to estimate models of developmental functioning in four critical areas (verbal skills, activities of daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various…
Descriptors: Obesity, Skill Development, Preschool Children, Body Composition
Kreisle, Beate – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2008
Ongoing traumatising life events can often cause a person to the have physical or emotional characteristics of one who is mentally disabled or autistic, making it easy to form a wrong first impression. This article presents the story of one such person in a Positive Peer Culture program in a group treatment facility in Germany. In Positive Peer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Interpersonal Relationship, Coping
Muller-Godeffroy, E.; Michael, T.; Poster, M.; Seidel, U.; Schwarke, D.; Thyen, U. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008
The aim of the study was to investigate self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents with myelomeningocele (MMC) and to examine the impact of clinical impairments and limitations in activities of daily living (ADL). Fifty patients (28 females, 22 males) between 8 and 16 years of age (mean age 12y 1mo [SD 2y…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Adolescents, Patients, Anatomy
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