IMMINENT NEED OF ADDING

PRO-ACTIVE LIFE SKILLS TO

CREATE

BALANCED EDUCATION

FOR EMPOWERING YOUTH

DR. DEVINDER K. KANSALPrincipal, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education &

Sports Sciences

&

Head, Deptt. of Physical Education & Sports Sciences (University of Delhi)

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Abstract : The present paper deals with the

philosophy of balancing education by the inclusion of

physical activity and sports for representative

education of psychomotor, cognitive, affective,

spiritual, social and environmental domains. This will

help students to well grasp all life skills including

physical life skills of measured, exercise & nutrition

(MEN) needed to enjoy a fuller and happy long life for

empowering youth with the redefined education of the

current millennium.2

The researches of management experts have

recommended that personal development should be

based on sports training metaphor. Keeping in

view the recommendations of Delors Commission of

education (1996) and UNESCO’s charter of physical

education & sports, it is very important that we do

full justice to our youth by switching over to

balanced education. It has been concluded that

students need inner strength for how to achieve

optimum health and well-being.

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It has been proved that the key to high

performance and personal renewal is management

of energy not time (Loehr & Schwartz, 2003). On

reviewing the scenario, it has been found that the

development of inter-disciplinary approach in

universities has very slow development and various

subjects are organized into different water tight

separate teaching departments and faculties.

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It has been recommended that the creation ofan additional centre of application ofknowledge evaluated (CAKE), at eachuniversity may be a better tool for expeditingthe process of inter and multidisciplinarybalanced education system for strengtheningand empowering youth as well as for updatingand tailoring courses quickly for the fastchanging needs of the society and industry.List of life skills from six domains with anexample to help from less practicable system ofnutritional skills to more practicable skill.

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Introduction : An attempt has been made to

standardize the meaning, concept, philosophy

and selection of life skills from six domains

including essential skills from physical activity

and nutrition and their educative significance for

undergraduate students. Since, this is an

upcoming and eclectic area of lifestyle education,

educationists, beneficiaries and the masses have

been giving strikingly different meanings to these

terms namely ‘lifestyle’, ‘life skills’ and

‘livelihood skills’.6

Methodology : General philosophyand historical examples in research,have been followed to explain andpresent the research on physical lifeskills and important evidencesrequired to strengthen the creation ofbalanced education system asexplained in the followed overview.

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Overview : Our education should be

eclectically balanced to emphasize art of

living on the pattern of sports training

metaphor which alone strengthens with

reinvented power through the proposal of

redefining the need of balanced education

and helps to come out of boxes of self

deception.

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Observations : Data have been collected from

many reliable sources related to the creation of

physical life skills education needed to teach at

undergraduate level. The eclectic approach

has been followed so that comprehensive life-

skills education is made a genuinely needed art

& science of living required for wholistic

personality development.

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Traditional life-skills included in teaching as per CBSEcurriculum as core life skills of WHO.

List of ten core life skills laid down by WHO.

1. Self-awareness 6. Problem Solving

2. Empathy 7. Effective communication

3. Critical thinking 8. Interpersonal relationship

4. Creative thinking 9. Coping with stress

5. Decision making 10. Coping with emotion

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Listing of life skills belonging to

various domains

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Sports training system has both science andart at its beck and call. While science isunifying force with universal principles andfacts usable by one and all, to increaseone’s efficiency and output; the art ispersonalizing scientific tools foraesthetically excelling through improvingperformance and excellence by the principleof gradual overloading.

Sports Training metaphor

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Art and science of self-responsibility of measuredexercise and nutritional skills accompanied withwisdom of perseverance of ownership of soul overmind, management with valid evaluation in theenvironment of necessity of heredity,environment, lifestyle & professional care factors;warm-up, exercise session & terminal session;health for everyone, lifelong, personalized, withproper frequency, intensity, time duration withgradual overload, specific, individualized, recovery& renewal by rest and regular oscillation of work-rest rhythems.

‘AS SR MEN & WOMEN HELP

WEST & HELP to FIT GO SIR’

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‘Centre for Application of Knowledge aftervalid Evaluation with scientific techniques isimminently needed to add pro-active lifeskills of eclectic nature so as to create anera of ‘Balanced Education’ essential toempower our youth with all life skills duringtheir undergraduate first degree course asexplained recently in another paper(Kansal, 2013).

Necessity of CAKE

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Presently, percentage of calorie nutrients is

recommended per 100 grams of eatable items.

This expression of percentages hides the greater

calorie content of fats and oils because the

consumer is able to see only the percentage by

weight irrespective to their proportionate calorie

value. Nutritional life skill may be promoted by

expressing relative contents of carbohydrate,

proteins and fats (CPF) in percentage of their

calorie contribution per in 100 K.cal. value of a

food item.

Complex Less Practicable to More

Practicable Nutritional Skills

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Redefined composition of nutrients in

percentage of 100 calories obtained from the

eatable portion of various common food items.

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Let us plan food requirement for

getting balanced calories from

carbohydrates, proteins and fats in

the required ratio on personalized

basis for a male student having 70 kg

of body weight requiring a diet to

provide 2000 k.cal. with right

assortment of foods. 17

Calculate the proportionate amounts calories neededindividually in 70%, 12% and 18% respectively fromcarbohydrates, proteins and fats (lipids) for a diet of 2000K.cal.

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The nutritional planning steps enlisted

above may be verified from the following

analysis. The current methods of reporting

percentages of carbohydrates, proteins and

fats by weight becomes biased towards the

consumption of more fat due to the hiding

of the fact that fats provide 9 k.cal. per

gram as compared to 4 k.cal/gm of

carbohydrates and proteins.

Desired Modification in Nutritional

Skills

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What when we talk in the form of

percentage of calories obtained from

carbohydrates, proteins and fats (CPF) of a

good item, it greatly changes the

percentage composition represented by CPF

weights. This point is clearly evident from

the relative percentage figures of Table-4

for the percentage of CPF by weight and by

energy value.

Desired Modification in Nutritional Skills

(Contd.)

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Percentages of carbohydrates, proteins and

fats by weight and by energy of almonds,

soyabean and wheat (Gopalan et al., 2004).

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Drastic change noticed in expressing percentage

values (especially fat) when expressed per 100 gm.

and per 100 calories expressed in case of soyabean

as an example

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The addition of life skills from various

domains will greatly help in balancing

education to the youth during their learning

while studying for an undergraduate

degree. The promotion of such creative

skills is possible again, only by the creation

of Centres of Application of Knowledge

Evaluated scientifically (CAKE) at each

university.

Conclusions

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The sports training metaphor should beused as a general principle of learningand achieving goals with the best likeskills of science and arts used to createroad maps. A lot of delay in evolvingempowering methods for the youth hasbeen caused. Recommendations given inconclusions will greatly reinforce theempowering of youth through the balancededucation following sports trainingmetaphor.

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“Eclecticism must be used for balancingwholistic personality development atrevolutionary pace for achieving MDG-2015”.

Students need inner strength for how toachieve optimum health and well being which isnot possible without balancing UG courses byadding proactively the sports training metaphorof gradual overloading the muscle, mind,intellect and emotions and then making theset-points adjusted at a higher level withregular experiences of gradual overload.

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This awareness is possible by introducingenvironmental education and public healthpaper laiden appropriately with physicalactivity and oxygen consumption adaptationexercise awareness paper prescribed to allpre-service teacher training courses, too.

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