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- Title
Soft Skills Training in the Indian Context: Need to Prevent Cultural Hegemony.
- Authors
Mahendra, Alankrita
- Abstract
Soft skills training has become imperative in a fast changing and liberalized economy like India. The employment prospects of the present-day youth are inextricably bound with their awareness of globally relevant soft skills and ability to speak English. In the process of inculcating and acquiring soft skills, the pertinent questions to be answered are: Are we relegating our own culture to the background? Are we in the danger of losing our moorings and landing in the lap of another cultural hegemony, barely six decades after freeing ourselves from one? This paper seeks to raise some doubts regarding the long-term fallouts of the western-style soft skills training and endeavors to find a middle ground which can satisfy the urgent need for globalization and also help prevent the undue marginalization of our local cultures. There is an urgent need to revamp our training modules and inject local cultural reality into them to ensure that we produce a young workforce which is empowered with both global skills as well as indigenous culture.
- Subjects
INDIA; TRAINING; SOFT skills; HEGEMONY; CULTURE
- Publication
IUP Journal of Soft Skills, 2013, Vol 7, Issue 3, p46
- ISSN
0973-8479
- Publication type
Article