Article Title :
Life Skill Education and Adolescent Learners

Author Name :
Prof. Lalit Kumar

Keyword :
Life Skill, Adolescent, Life Skill Education, India

Publisher :
Politic India Publication

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Abstract :
Certain skills help an individual to lead the life in a better way. These skills useful for better living have been identified by WHO, UNICEF and many other related organizations as life skills. It has been categorized by various bodies differently, but certain skills are placed in almost all the categories. Communication, empathy, critical thinking, stress management, decision-making, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills are some of the important life skills. Different organizations and many curriculum frameworks suggest learning of these skills by individuals and especially by adolescents useful for their all-around personality development. India with its huge young population needs life skill education for its youth and especially for its adolescents. The need for life skill education has been suggested by educationists, sociologists, and economists. Adolescence, the transit period of human life, requires life skill education more than any other stage the reason is that psychologically it is the age of greater potentials and if these potentials are not channelized properly it may go either through way-destruction or construction. For a country like India life skill education needs to be part of our school curriculum in theory and practice both, and especially for our adolescents.