Indian Institute of Teacher Education - Annexure XIV

Annexure XIV-1

Life Skills

Sixty-four Arts mentioned in ancient texts:

1. Singing;

2. Playing on musical instruments;

3. Dancing;

4. Union of dancing, singing, and playing instrumental music;

5. Writing and drawing;

6. Tattooing;

7. Arraying and adoring an idol with rice and flowers;

8. Spreading and arranging beds or couches of flowers, or flowers upon the ground;

9. Colouring the teeth, garments, hair, nails and bodies, i.e. staining, dyeing, colouring and painting the same;

10. Fixing stained glass into a floor;

11. The art of making beds, and spreading out carpets and cushions for reclining;

12. Playing on musical glasses filled with water;

13. Storing and accumulating water in aqueducts, cisterns and reservoirs;

14. Picture making, trimming and decorating;

15. Stringing of rosaries, necklaces, garlands and wreaths;

16. Binding of turbans and chaplets and making crests and top-knots of flowers;

17. Scenic representations, stage playing;

18. Art of making ear ornaments;

19. Art of preparing perfumes and odours;

20. Proper disposition of jewels and decorations, and adornment in dress;

21. Magic or sorcery;

22. Quickness of hand or manual skill;

23. Culinaryart, i.e. cooking and cookery;

24. Making lemonades, sherbets, acidulated drinks, and spirituous extracts with proper flavour and colour;

25. Tailor’s work and sewing;

26. Making parrots, flowers, tufts, tassels, bunches, bosses, knobs, etc., out of yarn or thread;

27. Solution of riddles, enigmas, covert speeches, verbal puzzles and enigmatical questions;

28. A game, which consisted in repeating verses, and as one person finished, another person had to commence at once, repeating another verse, beginning with the same letter with which the last speaker’s verse ended, whoever failed to repeat was considered to have lost, and to e su J I forfeit or stake of some kind;

29. The art of mimicry or imitation;

30. Reading, including chanting and intoning;,

31. Study of sentences difficult to pronounce. It is played as a game chiefly by women and children an consists of a difficult sentence being given, and when repeated quickly, the words are often transposed or badly pronounced;

32. Practice with sword, single stick, quarter staff and bow and arrow;

33. Drawing inferences, reasoning or inferring;

34. Carpentry, or the work of a carpenter;

35. Architecture, or the art of building;

36. Knowledge about gold and silver coins, and jewels and gems;

37. Chemistry and mineralogy;

38. Colour jewels, gems and beads;

39. Knowledge of mines and quarries;

40. Gardening; knowledge of treating the diseases of trees and plants, of nourishing them, and determining their ages;

41. Art of cock fighting, quail fighting and ram fighting;

42. Art of teaching parrots and starlings to speak;

43. Art of applying perfumed ointments to the body, and of dressing the hair with unguents and perfumes and braiding it;

44. The art of understanding writing in cipher, and the writing of words in a peculiar way;

45. The art of speaking by changing the forms of words. It is of various kinds. Some speak by changing the beginning and end of words, others by adding unnecessary letters between every syllable of a word, and so on;

46. Knowledge of language and of the vernacular dialects;

47. Art of making flower carriages;

48. Art of framing mystical diagrams, of addressing spells and charms, and binding armlets;

49. Mental exercises, such as completing stanzas or verses on receiving a part of them; or supplying one, two or three lines when the remaining lines are given indiscriminately from different verses, so as to make the whole an entire verse with regard to its meaning; or arranging the words of a consonants, or leaving them out altogether; or putting into verse or prose sentences represented by signs or symbols. There are many other such exercises;

50. Composing poems;

51. Knowledge of dictionaries and vocabularies;

52. Knowledge of ways of changing and disguising the appearance of persons;

53. Knowledge of the art of changing the appearance of things, such as making cotton to appear as silk, coarse and common things to appear as fine and good;

54. Various ways of gambling;

55. Art of obtaining possession of the property of others by means of mantras or incantations;

56. Skill in youthful sports;

57. Knowledge of the rules of society, and of how to pay respect and compliments to others;

58. Knowledge ofthe art of war, of arms, of armies, etc.;

59. Knowledge of gymnastics;

60. Art of knowing the character of a man from his features;

61. Knowledge of scanning or constructing verses;

62. Arithmetical recreations;

63. Making artificial flowers;

64. Making figures and images in clay.

Vidyas as mentioned by Narada to Sanatkumarin Chhandogya Upanishad, Chapter VII. 1.2:

1. Grammar;

2. pitryam- the rites for the manes;

3. Rashim-mathematics;

4. Daivam - subject of natural disturbances;

5. Nidim-mineralogy;

6. Vakovakyam-logic;

7. Ekayanam-Ethics;

8. Deva-vidyam - Etymology;

9. Brahma-vidyam - knowledge of the Vedas -Rig, Yajur and Sama - regarding pronunciation, ceremonial, prosody and lighting of fire;

10. Bhutavidyam - science of five elements;

11. Kstaravidyam - science of archery;

12. Nakshatrav-vidyam- astrology;

13. Sarpa Vidyam-Science of serpents;

14. Devajana-vidyam - fine arts.

Annexure XIV-2

Life Skills - I Hobbies

1. Chess.

2. Reading—Book are treasure of knowledge and this hobby will certainly come helping a long way in life.

3. Playing the Guitar

4. Ballroom Dancing

5. Woodworking

6. Gardening

7. Car Restoration

8. Metalworking

9. Marksmanship
   Marksmanship requires pure concentration and a steady hand.

10. Collecting like postal stamps, first day covers, coins, etc.

11. Camping/Backpacking

12. Ship in a Bottle

13. Whittling

14. Geocaching

15. Sports: Football, Hockey, Cricket, weightlifting, running, bouldering, kho-kho, kabbadi, Baseball, etc.

16. Model Building

17. Leatherworking

18. Bowling

19. Archery

20. Letter Writing

21. Martial Arts

22. Yoga - Asana, Pranayama, Meditation.

23. Hiking

24. Photography

25. Pool/Billiards

26. Mountaineering

27. Cooking

28. Blacksmithing

29. Flying

30. Magic

31. Learning a Foreign Language

32. Blogging

33. Fencing

34. Drawing and Painting

35. AmateurAstronomy

36. Genealogy

37. 1. Adventure Races

38. Knitting

39. 1. Computer Programming

40. Aeromodeling

41. Amateur Radio

42. Animals/pets/dogs

43. Astrology

44. Beadwork

45. Beatboxing

46. Birdwatching

47. Boating

48. Bonsai Tree

49. Bringing FoodTo The Disabled

50. Building A House For Habitat For Humanity

51. Building Dollhouses

52. Butterfly Watching

53. Button Collecting

54. Calligraphy

55. Candle Making

56. Canoeing

57. Car Racing

58. Cloud Watching

59. Collecting Antiques

60. Collecting Artwork

61. Compose Music

62. Computer activities

63. Crafts

64. Crochet

65. Crocheting

66. Crossword Puzzles

67. Dolls making

68. Embroidery

69. Freshwater Aquariums

70. Frisbee Golf-Frolf

71. Go Kart Racing

72. Grip Strength

73. HandwritingAnalysis

74. Home Repair

75. Horseriding

76. Hot air ballooning

77. Hula Hooping

78. Jewelry Making

79. Jigsaw Puzzles

80. Juggling

81. Kites

82. Learning An Instrument

83. Learning To Pilot A Plane

84. Legos

85. Listening to music

86. Making Model Cars

87. Matchstick Modeling

88. Papermaking

89. Parachuting

90. Piano

91. Pottery

92. Puppetry

93. Pyrotechnics

94. Rafting

95. Reading

96. Reading To The Elderly

97. Rescuing Abused Or Abandoned Animals

98. Robotics

99. Rock Collecting

100. Scrapbooking

101. Skeet Shooting

102. Singing In Choir

103. Skateboarding

104. Sketching

105. Sky Diving

106. Soap Making

107. Storytelling

108. Swimming

109. Tea Tasting

110. Toy Collecting

111. Tutoring Children

112. Video Games, such as Age of Mythology, etc.

113. Writing

114. Scale Modeling / Dioramas

115. Beautician

116. Art of telling Jokes

117. Food Decorating

118. Basket making

119. Rice sculpture

120. Animal communication

121. Hobbies related to the religions of the world

122. Fashion Designing (Specialised course)

123. Cosmetics

124. Making Perfumes

125. Childcare

126. Diets

127. Natural remedies

128. Modeling

129. PATIO ART: HOWTO MAKE STAINED GLASS WIND CHIMES FOR YOUR HOME AND GARDEN

130. Mosaic Art and Style

Annexure XIV-3

Life Skills I Vocations

I. DRAWING AND PAINTING (Specialisation in any of the five or six)

1. Surreal Painting

2. Romance

3. Madhubani Painting

4. Miniature Painting

5. Impressionism

6. Renaissance Art

7. Abstract Paintings

8. Semi Abstract Paintings

9. Mughal Paintings

10. Rajasthani Paintings

11. Mathura Art

12. Figurative Paintings

13. Landscape Paintings

14. Ceramics

15. Sculpture

16. Glass Painting

17. Basholi, Guler-Kangra and Sikh Lepakshi Painting

18. Batik Painting

19. Indian Murals Paintings

20. Indian Folk Paintings

21. Silk Paintings

22. South Indian form of Painting (Thanj avur)

23. Atavahana Paintings (2nd century B.C. to 2nd century A,D.)

24. Kushana School of Paintings (1 st to 3rd century A.D.)

25. Gupta Period Paintings (4th too 6th century A.D.)

26. Vakataka Paintings (4th to 6th century A.D.)

27. Early Western Chalukya Paintings (6th to 8 th century A.D.)

28. Bhanja Paintings (8th century A.D.)

29. Pallava Paintings (7th to 9th century A.D.)

30. Early Pandyan Paintings (7th to 9 th century A.D.)

31. Early Chera Paintings (8th to 9th century A.D.)

32. Rashtrakuta Paintings (8th to 1 Oth century A.D.)

33. Chola School ofPaintings (9th to 13th century A.D.)

34. Hoysala Paintings (11 th to 13th century A.D.)

35. Kakatiya Paintings (11 th to 13th century A.D.)

36. Vijayanagara Paintings (14th to 17th century A.D.)

37. Nayaka Period Paintings (17th to 18th century A.D.)

38. Paintings of Medieval Kerala (16th to 18 th century A.D.)

39. Pala and Medieval Eastern School ofPaintings (9th to 16th century A.D.)

40. Medieval Western Paintings (11 th to 15 th century A.D.)

41. Pahari Paintings (16th to 19th century A.D.)

42. Deccani or Dakhani Paintings (17th to 19th century A.D.)

43. Mysore andTanjore Traditional Paintings (17th to 19th century A.D.)

44. Gujarati painting - glass painting, Kalampari art

45. Fabric Painting

46. Encaustic Painting - involves working with pigment, wax, and heat

47. Chinese/Japanese painting (including Sumi-e), both of which are distinctive and very beautiful styles of brush painting.

48. Portraits individuals, groups of people, couples and self-portraits.

49. Comic animation

II. COMPUTER RELATED COURSES (Five year course)

Computer Teacher Course (5 year course)

1^st year

1. Computer Fundamentals

2. Operating System concepts Linux & Unix

3. Windows XP/7/Vista

4. MS Word

5. MS Excel

6. MS Powerpoint

7. Acess& Outlook

8. Bharatiya Open Office

9. Networking

10. Web Server Concepts

11. Introduction to FLASH

12. TALLY

13. Introduction to Basic Java

2^ndYearCourse:

1. PageMaker

2. CorelDRaw

3. Photoshop

4. Editing a layer mask

5. Opacity of Layer

6. Illustrator

7. FLASH

8. Leap Office/ISM

Multilingual Web Technology

1. Software Engineering Technique

2. C/C++

3. CCB&MT

4. HTML/DHTML

5. JavaScript/VB Script

6. Asp.net

7. FrontPage

8. DreamWeaver

9. Photoshop

10. Flash

11. GIF Animator Introduction

12. Internet/Project

13. Concept of Web Server

14. TCP/IP

15. JavaScript

16. Oracle

17. Sql. Server

18. Project

3^rd to 5^th Year:

MULTIMEDIA

1. Image Editing
   CorelDraw
   Photoshop
   InDesign

2. Advance Image Editing
   Illustrator

3. 2D Animation
   Flash
   Swish MAX
   GIF Animator

4. Audio
   Sound Forge

5. Video-Editing
   Premier

6. 3D Animation
   3D MAX
   Poser

7. Maya Software
   Animated Film Projects

8. Ecommerce

III. Computer Hardware (1 year Course).

IV. Cooking (National and International Cuisine).

V Classical Dances (Indian Classical - e.g. Kathak, Manipuri, Kathkali, Bharatnatyam, Kuchipudi, Oddisi etc.)

VI Musical Instruments-Flute, Sitar, Santoor,Tabla etc.

VII Vocal Ragas-(Indian Ragas)

VIII Agriculture

IX Hoticulture

X Floriculture