Are educational institutions in Nagaland imparting required life skills to students?
According to the WHO, life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behavior to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. Life skills deal with psychosocial competencies and are very important for anybody throughout life span.
10 core Life Skills are: Self Awareness, Creative thinking, Critical thinking, Effective communication, Empathy, Interpersonal relationship, Coping with stress, Coping with emotion, Problem solving, and Decision making.
Looking at the situation of educational system the educational institutions focused too much on the syllabus and academics rather than focusing on a student’s capabilities or needs. The schools are scared to lose their reputation through failures of students and stress only on marks secured by the students, not knowing that life skills can boost a student’s capabilities.
The Nagaland Board of School Education has recently introduced Life Skills textbooks for Classes IX and X but does not award credits/marks and thus, neither the teacher nor the students pay importance to the subject.
Lack of life skills could possibly be the reason why many students after graduation don't know where to go and are not really aware of their potentials. Thus Life skills are important aspect of every individual growth that is essential for personal development as well as growth of society towards development and peaceful society.
Kikhovi Zholia AG Colony Kohima
Some educational institutions in Nagaland do impart various life skills but it may not be up to the level where it can help the students in future.
It should give more importance, for instance SUPW, carpentry, accounting, social activities etc. some schools are imparting all this to students.
Bookish knowledge alone will never help a student and one good outcome of providing life skills in education is that, it will help curb the problem of unemployment, depression, ability to tackle difficulty, positive thinking, motivation, leadership among the student too.
Kenei Meyase Sempo
Agri (Mewibogei) Colony, Kohima.
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