Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Abstract

One needs to possess various life skills in order to prosper and promote sustainability in this progressive world. There are many such life skills, but the core life skills laid down by WHO may include problem-solving, critical thinking, decision and various other skills. One is not readily born with these qualities, but needs to imbibe them from various sources with the passage of time in order to increase personal sustainability in this walk of life. Merely teaching these life skills may not actually help a student to imbibe them. Hence, a methodology for efficient inculcation of life skills like, STUDENT SKILL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (SSDC) with falls under PROJECT BASED LEARNING (PBL), needs to be adapted. With the usage of traditional pedagogy, it is possible to generate theoretical awareness but inculcation of life skills is a task in itself. Hence project based learning or outcome based learning comes into the picture. The change in teaching methodology which was introduced in order to record the inculcation of life skills was the origination of the Student Skill Development Centre (SSDC). In SSDC, student of various domains imbibe knowledge by generating self-taught solutions to realistic problems. As per the observations, the students working under SSDC or other project based learning (PBL) centres tend to inculcate enhanced decision making, critical thinking, team work and problem solving skills as compared to those being educated by traditional approach. These students find it easier to cope up with any problem they come across in their lives. Hence it can be concluded that inculcation of life skills is rapid in those students who work under skills development centres. Such students also tend to sustain and prosper in the long run.