Volume : IV, Issue : VI, June - 2015

STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE SKILLS AND GLOBAL COMPETENCIES

Harsh Vardhan Singh, Dr. Manju Gera

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 The contemporary education system till date emphasizes on and is obsessed with production of individuals who confirm. There is no place of rebels and they are thrown out of the system. Independent thinking is discouraged as against possibility and conformity. According to Sir Kenneth Robison, a typical educational institution (school) has in it all the qualities of a factory, there is a ball, there are separate subjects, separate facilities, children are educated by batches and by group. Education system is based on the model of mass production and conformity and views the ‘learners’ as a product of mechanical system. In addition to it Robison says, ‘As the whole idea was developed and conceived in the economic circumstances of the industrial revolution and was driven but the economic imperative of the time’. In perspective of ‘Indian Education system’, the view of vice– president Hamid Ansari in an article, “Rebuild skills of teachers– Depoliticize education: Vice President” (March 5, 2012), where he quotes the Yashpal Committee report which states that “We have followed policies of fragmenting our educational enterprises in to ‘cubicles’ and that ‘most instrumentalities’ of our education harm the potential of human mind for constructing and creating new knowledge”. There are voids and lacunae in the system due to which learner is being viewed just as a product of the system. Skills defined in terms of ability to assess a problem situation and find solution, ability to communicate effectively, having effective interpersonal skills, capacity for convergent and divergent thinking are not given due to importance. This paper deals with the Genesis of this problem of our education system and provides an account of the main approaches, evidence of the education system for application of life–skills. Helping students develop a perfect importance of life skills in light of modern global competency is elaborated in this paper. And of utmost importance this paper focuses on operationalizing Life Skills Education (LSE) and a roadmap for identifying resources for institutional design that develop life skills among students.

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Harsh Vardhan Singh, Dr. Manju Gera Strategies for Development of Life Skills and Global Competencies International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 6 June 2015

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