PROGRAMA “COGITO ERGO SUM” EN LAS HABILIDADES PARA LA VIDA EN UNA INSTITUCIÓN EDUCATIVA DE SANTA CLARA LIMA, ATE-PERÚ

Globalization has generated cross-cutting problems in all areas such as social, cultural, political, educational and others. And the latter brings with it crises and risks in childhood and adolescence, questions about their existence, sexuality, identity, motivations and others appear. The objective of the study is to evaluate the efficiency of the "cogito ergo sum" program on life skills in high school adolescents. Therefore, a mixed design was used, quantitative because the quasi-experimental design was used, with a control group and an experimental group, and qualitative for the hermeneutic-phenomenological analysis. It was observed that both groups were equivalent at the beginning. After the application of the program, it was found that in the control group there were no longer students at the beginning level, 77.8% were in process and 22.2% at an achieved level. The experimental group presented 40.7% at the process and achieved levels. The experimental group had 18.5% at the outstanding level. An adolescent who questions, reflects and becomes aware of himself/herself will exercise autonomous and multidimensional thinking, and will also be able to contribute to his/her environment and make assertive decisions for the transformation of him/herself and society. It is concluded that there is efficiency in the experimental group in life skills after applying the Cogito Ergo Sum program in adolescents, with a result of Sig. .023 less than p<0.05.