Education and Life Skills

Book Review
Book Name: Education And Life Skill
By:Dr.Rekha.A.Pathak and Mr.Jitendranath Gorai.
Recently I read a book named Education And Life Skill. This book is written by Dr. Rekha.A.Pathak and Mr. Jitendranath Gorai. It is published in the year 2022 by Sankalp Publication.
This book is about the life skills we require to face the challenges in this real world. This book helps the youth of our country to cope up with the stress they are facing.
This book consist of total Six chapters based on different concepts . The first chapter is about Life skill concept. It defines in detail what is a skill and what is a life skill. The life skills defined by UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO are defined here. In the second chapter three types of life skills Individual, Social and Decision Making are defined very well along with real life examples and the importance of these skills in our life. The third chapter states about different methods of teaching life skills. As the name of the book is education and life skill so this chapter describes that how a teacher can enhance these life skills in a classroom by using different methods of teaching. These methods of teaching can be discussion, Project etc. The very good thing is that in this book all the points are given which a teacher and a student should keep it in mind while using different methods.The next chapter is about implementation of life skills.So,just only knowing about skills and life skills does not mean a lot unless we use it or implement it in our life.So, this book states that how skills like communication and all are implemented in secondary level and why?It makes it clear that after higher secondary school students enter into professional courses. So, there they should be trained for there personality development.The implementation of life skills are done in higher education so that the students get ready to face the challenges of real life. The next chapter is The Programmes Of Primary and Secondary school. This chapter states about all the programmes which are run at school levels.Intodays time we see that small children of primary section can deliver very well speech and can do the stage performances confidently.These confidence is brought up at school levels through the programme of co- curricular activities or extra-curricular activities.These activities are performed outside the classroom in the school time itself. It gives them a lot of exposure. These programmes should be well known to teachers. All these programmes are very well illustrated in this chapter along with real life examples. The last chapter very well illustrates that a child should be equipped with what all skills and from where they can get it. All the skills we cannot get from school somethings are to be taught at home and this all is given in this chapter. It tells about how a mother can train with all skills at home.They can be involved in shopping which introduces them with money its importance and many more.
According to me every parent and teacher should read this book. It will surely be beneficial for them to inculcate life skill in youth and child. In my opinion we all should read this book.