Life Skill Education: Challenges And Role Of Teachers

Abstract

Life Skills Education is a novel promotional program that teaches generic life skills through participatory learning methods. Conceptual understanding and practicing of the skills occur through experiential learning in a non-threatening setting. Such initiatives provide the individual with a wide range of alternative and creative ways of solving problems. Life have been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life”. They represent the psycho-social skills that determine behaviour and include reflective skills such as problem-solving and critical thinking, to personal skills such as self-awareness, and to interpersonal skills. Education is seen as the main way of enabling individuals and nations alike to meet the ever increasing economic, technological, social and personal challenges. We expect education to prepare young people for the world of work and for economic independence; to enable them to live constructively in responsible communities; and to enable them to live in a tolerant, culturally diverse and rapidly changing society. Perhaps above all, we expect education to help young people to build lives that have meaning and purpose in a future we can scarcely predict.

Teaching is becoming a more and more complex task day by day. Teachers meet a large number of children and youth from a variety of backgrounds. Thus, teachers now hold more responsibilities. All these developments underline the questions related to the responsibilities and duties of teachers. So, role of teacher is a challenging now in today’s life i.e. to develop life skill in children.

The present paper discusses the concept of life skills education, role of teachers inculcating life skills education, challenges & pressure on teacher respect to life skills education.