The Life Skills Collaborative (LSC) has launched the India Life Skills Glossary, a comprehensive repository of life skills, created and contextualized to the needs of India’s young people and education system. It defines and explains 51 life skills that are essential for people between the ages of 11-18 years to develop necessary personal capabilities to fulfill their human potential while also adapting to an ever-changing world.
It aims to provide students, learning ecosystems, and parents with a common vocabulary to better understand and adopt life skills. It will be open for feedback and comments from the general public till February 28, 2022. It is accessible to all through the LSC website. Each life skill is explained using these structures – Definition: Explanation of the life skill + importance of the skill; Life Skill in Action: How the life skill is manifested in a young person; Related Life Skills: Skills that either bears a close affinity to the skill being defined or are essential components of the skill, and support the development and functioning of the skill being defined; Also Known As: The term used for the specific life skill in other regional languages in India. Out of 63 SEL, 26 were chosen considering their focus on the Indian landscape and shared with the EASEL Labs of Harvard School of Education for mapping. The team sought insights from 50 national and international experts.
The Founder Director of The Teacher Foundation Maya Menon said, “We would like the glossary to be the ‘lighthouse’ steering India’s youth through life’s stormy seas, into safe harbours.”
