Self-Awareness, Effective Communication, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Decision Making

About The Book

It gives me immense pleasure to introduce the book titled, ‘Life Skills: Self-awareness, Effective communication, Critical thinking, Problem solving, Decision making’. Life Skills have often been looked at only from the reproductive health perspective and as a means of addressing specific issues related to adolescents’ sexuality, HIV/AIDS and drug abuse. But Life Skills development must also be seen in the context of preparing individuals for livelihood to face their daily challenges. A composite approach to Life Skills, that embeds within it concerns of health, livelihood and social development offers a holistic framework for personality development. Exactly, keeping this point of view, an attempt has been made to throw light in the various facets of few Life Skills. This book will prove extremely useful for the teachers and students of Primary level and also to all the faculties of Teacher Education i.e. M.Ed., B.Ed. and D.Ed. and valuable for teacher educators in teaching, for educationists and policy makers. It is hoped that the book will serve as a model of modification in preparing instructional materials for teacher training, practicing teacher, teacher trainers, curriculum developers and administrators.

About The Author

Dr. Bhagyashree Dudhade is working as the Principal of Swami Vivekanand College of Education, Wakad, Pune – 411 057. She has been awarded the degree of Doctor in Philosophy from Savitribai Phule Pune University. She has completed her Masters in Education at Dept. of Edu. & Ext., Savitribai Phule Pune University; acquired Masters degree in Subject communication – Chemistry from YCMOU; acquired Masters degree in Human Resource Management from Assam Downtown University and acquired Masters degree in English literature from Savitribai Phule Pune University. She has completed Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from MIT, Pune and Diploma in School Management from YCMOU. She has qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in Education.

She has authored two books – ‘Education SET/NET’ and ‘Life Skills Education’. She has published more than 30 Research papers at State/National/International levels. She is the Recipient of various awards, medals and certificates. She has actively participated and organized various Extension activities. She maintains interest in cultural activities, sports, yoga, aerobics, swimming, trekking and various adventurous activities.