In designing curricula and syllabuses for academic subjects,there must be a balance between content teaching and attention to the accompanying life skills.A more conscious and deliberate effort to promote life skills will enable learners to become more active citizens in the life of society.
L. Governments should recognize and actively advocate for the transformational role of education in realizing human potential and in socio—economic development.Ensure that curricula and syllabuses address life skills and give learners the opportunity to make real-life applications of knowledge,skills and attitudes.Show how life skills of all kinds apply in the world of work,for example,negotiating and communication skills,as well practical skills.Through initial and in-service teacher training,increase the use of active and participatory learning/teaching approaches.Examine and adapt the processes and content of education so that there is a balance between academic input and life skills development.Make sure that education inspectors look not only for academic progress through teaching and learning,but also progress in the commmunication, modeling and application of life skills.Advocate for the links between primary and(early.secondary education because learning life skills needs eight or nine years and recognize that the prospect of effective secondary education is an incentive to children,and their parents,to complete primary education successfully.
M.Funding agencies should support research,exchange and debate.nationally and regionally,on ways of strengthening life skills education.Support innovative(创新的.teacher training in order to combine life skills promotion into subjects across the curriculum and as a fundamental part of what school and education are about.Recognize the links between primary and secondary education in ensuring that children develop strong life skills.Support,therefore,the early years of secondary education as part basic education.
N. As support to governments and in cooperation with other international agencies,UNESC0:Works to define life skills better and clarify what it means to teach and learn them.Assists education. policy makers and teachers to develop and use a life skills approach to education.Advocates for the links between a life skills approach to education and broader society and human development.
根据以上内容,回答46-56题。
The recognition of life skills as part of education will promote the development of human potential and society.
47、The abilities to make the most of life consist of the inner capacities and the practical skills.
48、The progress in psycho—social skills can be measured by changed behavior.
49、Governments should examine and adapt the processes and content of education so as to balance the academic input and life skills development.
50、According to Jacques Delors,four pillars of education include learning to know, learning to be, learning to live together and learning to do.
51、The funding agencies should link primary education and secondary education to make sure that children develop strong life skills.
52、Learning literacy may exert an influence on self-esteem,critical thinking and communication skills.
53、One function of UNESCO is to help educational policy makers and teachers to develop and use a life skills approach to education.
54、Learning vocational skills can be an approach to acquiring both practical and psycho—social skills.
55、The abilities to manage stress and feelings,self-awareness,self-confidence are personal abilities.
Section C
56、Questions56-61 are based on the following passage.
It was once thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic.Today,we know that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution,the problem is literally worldwide.On several occasions over the past decade,a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the entire eastern half of the United States and led to health warnings even in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic.In fact, the very climate of the entire earth may be affected by air pollution.