IMMINENT NEED OF ADDING PRO-ACTIVE LIFE SKILLS TO CREATE  BALANCED EDUCATION FOR EMPOWERING YOUTH

1. IMMINENT NEED OF ADDING
PRO-ACTIVE LIFE SKILLS TO
CREATE
BALANCED EDUCATION
FOR EMPOWERING YOUTH
DR. DEVINDER K. KANSAL
Principal, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education &
Sports Sciences
&
Head, Deptt. of Physical Education & Sports Sciences
(University of Delhi) 1

2. 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.
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3. 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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4. 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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5. It has been recommended that the creation of
an additional centre of application of
knowledge evaluated (CAKE), at each
university may be a better tool for expediting
the process of inter and multidisciplinary
balanced education system for strengthening
and empowering youth as well as for updating
and tailoring courses quickly for the fast
changing needs of the society and industry.
List of life skills from six domains with an
example to help from less practicable system of
nutritional skills to more practicable skill.
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6. 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’.
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7. Methodology : General philosophy
and historical examples in research,
have been followed to explain and
present the research on physical life
skills and important evidences
required to strengthen the creation of
balanced education system as
explained in the followed overview.
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8. 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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9. 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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10. Traditional life-skills included in teaching as per CBSE
curriculum 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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11. Listing of life skills belonging to
various domains
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12. Sports training system has both science and
art at its beck and call. While science is
unifying force with universal principles and
facts usable by one and all, to increase
one’s efficiency and output; the art is
personalizing scientific tools for
aesthetically excelling through improving
performance and excellence by the principle
of gradual overloading.
Sports Training metaphor
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13. Art and science of self-responsibility of measured
exercise and nutritional skills accompanied with
wisdom of perseverance of ownership of soul over
mind, management with valid evaluation in the
environment of necessity of heredity,
environment, lifestyle & professional care factors;
warm-up, exercise session & terminal session;
health for everyone, lifelong, personalized, with
proper frequency, intensity, time duration with
gradual 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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14. ‘Centre for Application of Knowledge after
valid Evaluation with scientific techniques is
imminently needed to add pro-active life
skills of eclectic nature so as to create an
era of ‘Balanced Education’ essential to
empower our youth with all life skills during
their undergraduate first degree course as
explained recently in another paper
(Kansal, 2013).
Necessity of CAKE
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15. 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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16. Redefined composition of nutrients in
percentage of 100 calories obtained from the
eatable portion of various common food items.
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17. 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

18. Calculate the proportionate amounts calories needed
individually in 70%, 12% and 18% respectively from
carbohydrates, proteins and fats (lipids) for a diet of 2000
K.cal.
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19. 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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20. 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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21. Percentages of carbohydrates, proteins and
fats by weight and by energy of almonds,
soyabean and wheat (Gopalan et al., 2004).
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22. 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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23. 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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24. The sports training metaphor should be
used as a general principle of learning
and achieving goals with the best like
skills of science and arts used to create
road maps. A lot of delay in evolving
empowering methods for the youth has
been caused. Recommendations given in
conclusions will greatly reinforce the
empowering of youth through the balanced
education following sports training
metaphor. 24

25. “Eclecticism must be used for balancing
wholistic personality development at
revolutionary pace for achieving MDG-2015”.
Students need inner strength for how to
achieve optimum health and well being which is
not possible without balancing UG courses by
adding proactively the sports training metaphor
of gradual overloading the muscle, mind,
intellect and emotions and then making the
set-points adjusted at a higher level with
regular experiences of gradual overload.
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26. This awareness is possible by introducing
environmental education and public health
paper laiden appropriately with physical
activity and oxygen consumption adaptation
exercise awareness paper prescribed to all
pre-service teacher training courses, too.
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27. THANK
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