This report, What Makes Me? Core Capacities for Living and Learning in Childhood, explores how ‘core capacities’ – or cornerstones of more familiar concepts, such as life skills and competences – develop over the early part of the life course, and how they contribute to children’s personal well-being and development. This report was written by […]

The Learning for Well-being approach focuses on developing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual capacities. An initiative by the Universal Education Foundation collaborates with various communities to promote individual and collective wholeness. It views well-being as realising one’s unique potential through these capacities in relation to oneself, others, and the environment. The chapter explains the significance […]

Learning for Well-being outlines a journey towards realising one’s unique potential through holistic development—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—in relation to oneself, others, and the environment. Inspired by international resolutions on children and well-being definitions, the framework provides an ecological perspective on achieving potential within societal contexts. It emphasises developing capacities to live fully and offers […]