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Volume 07 Issue 09 September 2024

Scope of Yoga Education in Promoting ‘21st Century Skills’ of the Digital Natives: An Overview
1Dr. Mrinal Mukherjee, 2Manami Bhadra
1Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, BSAEU
2M. Ed Scholar, Department of Teacher Education, BSAEU
1,2Baba Saheb Ambedkar Education University (BSAEU), Kolkata-700019, India
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijmra/v7-i09-06

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ABSTRACT:

The pattern of social life of the adolescent has completely altered with the onslaught of digital media; truly they are digital natives nurtured in a unique period of an unprecedented influx of technology. Teens are usually have inadequate ability for self-regulation and are fragile and vulnerable to peer pressure and indulgence to any kind of adventure and experimentations with social media may be lethal for them. Adolescents exposed heavily in digital world are less competent in formal socialization as evident by latest research. In this era of digitalization, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is a dragging attention of educationist to mitigate negative impact of such digital dumping and to inculcate core social and emotional competencies. An ancient scientific way of life practiced in India which is combinations of practice of specific postures, breathing regulation, and meditation is yoga, which have been shown its efficacy in improving in cognitive performance in executive function and also in socio emotional adjustment. Broadly Desk Review Method has been adopted. Collection & analysis of the data collected by other researchers and as published in the journal of Repute has been considered. In the context of school education, the curriculum agreed to accommodate yoga as it could contribute to the physical, social, emotional and mental development of a child (NCF, 2005). The theoretical idea of Yoga are organized from experiences. Therefore, the need of the time is to device a frame work which can relate the theoretical construct of Yoga with learning objectives of ‘21st Century skills’ also referred to as ‘Transversal competencies’. This overview the scope of yoga education in the current approaches of the social cognitive principle of “Transversal competencies” in reference to digital generation.

KEYWORDS:

21st Century Skills, Social Media, Digital Natives, Yoga Education

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