Life Skills Education for Junior High School Pupils in Ho Chi Minh City

Abstract

Life skills education plays an important role in the comprehensive education process for pupils. Facing the social challenges, the Education sector and each school are increasingly paying more attention to life skills education activities for pupils. However, for different causes, the organization of these activities have been facing concerned issues such as determining the list of life skills, organizational measures or team quality, etc. need being noted when you want to improve the quality of these activities. The study addresses issues related to life skills education activities and proposes a number of life skills education measures suitable for current educational practice. The study was conducted to survey 45 people who are life skills teachers, junior high school teachers, and pupils by 2 study methods: qualitative and quantitative methods. Study results show that: life skills education activities are currently very interested in schools and there are many measures to organize these activities well. However, for many different causes, these activities also have certain difficulties and the study proposes 6 groups of measures to organize life skills education activities for pupils of junior high school age to organize these activities better, help pupils have life skills, live better themselves and with those around them.