Do you think that a curriculum and pedagogy for soft and life skills can actually be created?
Yes and I think people have done this in the past. You have to make it something that is not just talked by academics, it is also talked by practitioners and that is what we do. You have to bring in practical tips from the workplace and combine it with the concepts and the academic framework that research and academia brings. So, what we try to do is build the world of practice, we make a teacher out of you because there are immense learnings to be added from the practical and work experience and life experiences that you have had which has not figured in the classroom. That change we are trying to make for every course we have six faculties, we make sure to have women faculty because that perspective is slightly different from me, we make sure some of them come from different industries so that;s one thing. The other is that the way you access people is less about knowledge but much more about the application of knowledge. Now these are not new ideas. We are a new institution and we are trying to bring new concepts.
Pramath Raj Sinha
Founder & Chairman, Harappa Education