Why Family Life Education (FLE)?
Family Life Education (FLE)
Family Life Education and the Role of a Family Life Educator.
According to the National Council of Family Relations (2019) Family Life Education (FLE) equips and actively empowers families to build and enhance the skills and knowledge necessary that will result in improving well-being and interpersonal relationships, through an educational and preventive, strength-based approach. Skills widely identified as needed functions of a healthy family dynamic includes:
- healthy and strong communication
- understanding and knowledge of the human life-span, or human development
- efficient decision-making skills
- positive self-perception and esteem
- healthy interpersonal relationships
Family Life Educators (FLEs) are educated and trained to teach the above skills to all family members across every phase of the human life-span. Family Life Educators are expected to understand and become knowledgeable of Family Life Education as an inter-discipline of Family Science. Well-trainee Family Life Educators are expected to have proven knowledge in the areas of:
- Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
- Internal Dynamics of Families
- Human Growth and Development across the Lifespan
- Human Sexuality
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Family Resource Management
- Parent Education and Guidance
- Family Law and Public Policy
- Professional Ethics and Practice
- Family Life Education Methodology
National Council on Family Relations, (2019)