The Role of Pedagogy in Developing Life Skills

In response to recent concerns expressed by Indian industry about the ‘employability’ of school and university graduates, this article examines role pedagogy in developing life skills (or twenty-first-century skills) how these can be incorporated school/university curriculum. Recent curricular frameworks have within curriculum stressing importance inquiry collaborative work through all subjects taught school. The finds a similar emphasis National Curriculum Framework (NCF) India, but classroom observations textbook analyses show that learning objectives schools are frequently incorrect or misaligned with NCF vision. briefly touches on beliefs teachers affect their practices recommends attention should paid professionalisation teachers, as only then students acquire relevant for twenty-first century, which is what employers want. JEL Classification: O15, J24, I21