Sunday, March 6, 2011

Importance of Personality Development and Life Skills in Education.

Together, the phrase Personality Development may mean the various actions initiated for the development of an organised pattern of behaviour, attitude, character, traits, habits, etiquettes and manners that will make a person unique and distinctive.

At Paritraan, we don't just teach them syllabus. We try to come up with innovative methodologies to help students to harness their latent potential and channel their energies towards cultivation and sharpening of multiple dimensions of human competencies.

Education, formal and non-formal, must serve society as an instrument for fostering the creation of good citizens. All approaches to redesign the educational processes must take into account the basic and agreed-upon values and concerns of the international community and of the United Nations system such as human rights, tolerance, and understanding, democracy, responsibility, universality, cultural identity, the search for peace, the preservation of the environment and the sharing of knowledge.

There is no denial that the purpose, the aim and drive of the educational institutes, must be to equip the students with the most excellent technological proficiency so that the students may function with clarity and efficiency in the modern world. But a far more important purpose than this is to create the right climate and environment so that the students may develop fully as complete human beings. Total human being means not only a human being with inward understanding, with a capacity to explore, to examine his or her inward state and the capacity of going beyond it, but also someone who is good in what he or she does outwardly.

The cultivation of a global outlook, a love of nature and a concern for fellow human beings and environment should be part of the scheme of education. In order to achieve this, education has to cover the four distinct dimensions of the human personality beginning with the physical body, the development of intellectual and aesthetic sensibilities, the development of socially desirable moral values and finally, the inner dimension of spiritual growth.

While the science labs impart knowledge on the various principles of science, the Personality Development Lab focusses on how to develop some of the traits mentioned above. It should focus on some of the life skills such as:
  1. Communication and Public Speaking
  2. Various Forms of Arts like Music, Singing, Paiting, Dancing, Poetry, Literature etc.
  3. Emotional Intelligence
  4. Interpersonal Relationship
  5. Norms for Social Behaviour such as manners and etiquette
  6. Fitness of the mind and body through yoga and meditation
  7. Problem Solving and Thinking Skills
  8. Assertiveness
  9. Leadership and team working
  10. Self empowerment and time management

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