• DR SHIKHAMONI DAS

Abstract Adolescence Education is an emerging curricular area, conceptualized in response to a long pressing demand to impart sex education which can encapsulate the crucial concern of adolescents, not covered so far by the school curriculum. In a national seminar organized by the NCERT in April 1993, a consensus was taken which recommended the introduction of adolescence education in the school curriculum. Adolescence is a stage primarily of sexual development. The major concerns of this new curricular area identified in the seminar; focused on adolescence reproductive and sexual health (ARSH). As defined in the programme of action, adopted at the international conference on population and development (ICPD) Cairo 1994, - “Reproductive health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in matter relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and process.” The conceptual framework of adolescence education concretizes the reproductive and sexual health (ARSH) concerns for adolescents under three major components: the process of growing up, HIV/AIDS and drug abuse. The content of these components are related to the most intimate human behavior and hence are culturally very sensitive. Moreover, the objectives of adolescence education are primarily related to non-cognitive domain. Its main emphasis has to be on the inculcation of healthy attitudes and responsible behavior and more importantly on the development of appropriate skills among them for managing ARSH related problems and situation.

Adolescent, Adolescence education, Life skill development, Co-curricular approach

"SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE EDUCATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 8, page no.f535-f537, August-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2508573.pdf

"SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE EDUCATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 8, page no. ppf535-f537, August-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2508573.pdf