Awareness on Life Skill Education for Employment Oppurtunity among Prospective Teachers

Abstract

The tasks of globalization in the modern era make the higher education institutions to struggle hard to produce employable prospective teachers as creative and dynamic human assets. In India the rate of unemployment of prospective teachers keeps on rising because the academic and technical skills provided by an educational institutions are not adequate and satisfactory to achieve the demands of the personnel. Academic- skills alone do not promise upcoming job perspectives of prospective teachers. The current analysis of literature vibrantly echoes that the absence of life skills is one of the main reasons for unemployment of them. In this background, a survey was conducted to find out the level of awareness of the prospective teachers on 21st century life skills such as Critical thinking, Problem Solving, Communication, Cooperation, Creativity, Leadership, Effective Guidance, Character Development, Professional Ethics and Technology literacy.300 prospective teachers from three Colleges of Education in Salem district, Tamilnadu were selected as sample, by simple random sampling method. The findings of the study revealed that the awareness of prospective teachers on life skills was Low. Hence life skills training could be integrated in their curriculum which in turn give them proper employment opportunity.