Life Skills Education In India Book By Dr. Lalita K. Sharma

In this competitive world, passing the examination and getting the job, getting a well-settled life is the major goal of most of the youths these days. Different emerging issues like urbanization, technological innovations, globalization, privatization westernisations, etc inspiring and attracting the younger generation to adapt fast lifestyles for adjusting with this changing world.

People these days are focussing more on marks, grades rather than acquiring true knowledge of life, different skills of life that help a person in his all-round personality development and make him physically, mentally, morally, socially, and emotionally ready and fit to adjust in any situations of life. Life skills are those practical skills of life that help an individual to cope up with different issues that arise in our day-to-day life situations. Life skill education is that by achieving which an individual creates a positive environment around him, can face any complicated situations and can come up with flying colours in life. There are different life skills help an individual to be skilled in different dimensions. These are- tact, tolerance, truth, efficiency, enthusiasm, ethics, adaptability, alertness, affection, character, concise, creativity, emotional stability, rationality, curiosity, self-actualization, effective communication, empathy, friendship, open-mindedness, aversion to superstition, objectivity in thinking, suspended judgment, self-awareness and many more are especially important for youth to know to live a disciplined value-oriented life.

The major aim of education is not only to produce a good human resource but also to give good citizens having all social and personal skills to maintain self-dignity and to maintain the dignity of their own country. Life-skill education is the best subject in this direction.
In this book, the conceptual framework of a Life Skill Educationa is beautifully explained considering some of its associated dimensions. The book has started by giving a general outlook about child psychology a foundation stone of life-skill education in support of common childhood and adolescent problems, clinical depressions, and parental support in this regard.