This paper presents some reflections based on both the educational practice and theresearch experience. Developed by a research group, that seeks to generateconceptual discussion and new educational alternatives focused on life quality studies, itpretends to go further in the analysis to prospect integral formation. It is expected thatthis approach would lead to adequate: curricula, of projects teaching improvementprograms and community participation on the school and plans and programs that takewould take into account the life quality conditions of the community to generateformative integral processes and a participate solution to a problems.It presents a conceptual evolution about life quality as well as concepts of life level, wellbeingand the weII-being state. Definitions of life quality and human needs arepresented which are of critical importance for the research projects, to determinatecontextual conditions of the community as a base to educational action research andeducational practices in the formal and non formal fields. An application possibility isshown.