Employability- Skill Enhancement through the Study of English Literature
Keywords:
Financial, Critical thinking, PedagogyAbstract
Learners today are more interested in fixing their financial comfort zone. As a result, the relevance of the Humanities and the Social Sciences is being raised. Both the job seekers and the job providers today need the basic employability skills like critical thinking. Study of English literature known for its creativity, language and concepts can be used in cultivating the generic skills. The conscious facilitators can cultivate these skills through the innovative pedagogy and evaluation techniques
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Dhanappa M Metri (2016) “Increasing Employment Chances” Voices 250 May-June 2016
Sudhakar Marathe, Mohan Ramanan and Robert Bellarmine(2009) Provocations the teaching of English Literature in India. Orient Longman in association with British Council, India (2009)
