THE ROLE OF LIFE SKILLS TRAINING AS GENERIC SKILLS IN DEVELOPING CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING

In this world, life skills are learned throughout lifetime and we need to increase it by education. This paper focused and investigated on how to link life skills training with some abilities such as creative and critical thinking. The main purpose of this research is designed to provide a broad-based framework to develop the creativity and critical capacity desired by the life skills training as a curriculum planning. According to theoretical identity of this research, a large amount of componential data and information related resources were reviewed that these reviewing leaded to results' analysis of applied researches in some countries. Also this article focused to essentials of psychology, cultural, philosophic, curriculum and teaching methods. Research methods used in this study are descriptive-analytic and content analysis. Practical examples on how to implement are given.