Educational Guidelines to Promote Personal Growth in Young People. A Proposal for Educators

Abstract

Educators, with the responsibility of positively influencing the integral formation of youth, have before them the complex task of contributing to the development and personal growth of young people; they must have at their disposal alternatives that allow them to intentionally lead this complicated responsibility. It is the author's purpose to suggest ways, actions of educational orientation, procedures that contribute to enhance in youth the ability to assume their own personal growth, with a better understanding of themselves in harmony with the group. To achieve this purpose, different methods were applied such as: Analysis - synthesis, induction - deduction, systematization of opinions and assessments, interviews and triangulation of sources and methods.