Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
The complexity of our time presents education with new challenges. Among these is that of youth discomfort, which risks halting young people's constitutive openness to the possible. Against this risk, education must become a moment of cultivation of cognitive and non-cognitive competencies that are indispensable for dealing with the constitutive complexity of reality (WHO, 1994). This becomes even more urgent if we take note of the existing correlation between youth discomfort and lack of agency. Pedagogy must reflect on the contribution that formal, informal and non-formal education can make to the development of agency in order to combat youth discomfort, starting with the promotion of life skills. The reflection will be developed on the basis of some theoretical approaches: capability approach, Positive Youth Development, self-efficacy theory with a specific look at active citizenship education as a practice of development of the "future", life skills and agency.
