COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING AS A TOOL TO ENHANCE LIFE SKILLS: A STUDY AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN
Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 11
Abstract
The UNESCO Position paper on Education 2015, states that education should aims at enabling and empowering people to realize their rights, fulfil their personal expectations for a decent life and work, and contribute to the achievement of their societies' socioeconomic development objectives. It further states that the content of learning must promote acquisition of basic knowledge and cognitive skills, problem solving and creative thinking, understanding and respect for human rights, inclusion and equity, cultural diversity and foster a desire and capacity for lifelong learning and learning to live together. Education should enable the children to acquire these skills to live in a competitive world. Every experience becomes the center of one's learning. Our traditional educational system has given importance to develop skills like reading, writing and arithmetic. It is not enabling the children to meet the real-life situations like today's growing unemployment, poverty, inequality, violence and environmental destruction. It demands more life skills, abilities and creative learning potentialities. In this perspective, the researcher in this article proposes community service learning as pedagogy to teach life skills among school children. Community service as an outdoor learning is one of the best ways for children to develop their thinking, emotional and social skills. In this pretext, the researcher has taken the students of class 9 as sample and conducted a community service learning intervention study. The objective of this study is to examine the impact of community service learning on life skill development among school children. The method used is both quantitative and qualitative. The Life Skill Assessment Scale (LSAS) (Nair, et.al, 2010) is used for the data collection. The study has proved that community service is one of the best ways to enhance life skills among children and has enabled them to develop their skills and competencies.
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Nirmala. A
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