We are in the information age with a myriad of technology at our beck
and call just for anything you can imagine! The education sector is
having its own fair share too with several institutions around the world
conducting research on 21 century teaching methodologies etc, to
further intensify education reforms against traditional mode of
education. As it stands, the child needs to consciously imbibe 21
century skills to survive at a time as ours and especially for the
envisioned future. However, one often neglected and not revered
environment where the child learns first-hand about survival skills for
the 21 century is the home.
The home is the very foundation upon which the society’s architecture is built. Quite popular is the cliché Charity begins at home,
but fast eroding from our culture is it too. Unfortunately, the
survival skills for this age are embedded in the underlining principles
of age-old traditional values that have not been conscientiously handed
down from generation to generation or communicated in the form that is
intuitively deciphered by the child. To put it more aptly, skills needed
in the 21 century are really not new. The challenge is just that the
rapidity of change within the technological, economic, political,
socio-cultural landscapes caught us unprepared!
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