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Education and entertainment – both of these concepts are known to be completely different from each other. While education aims to cultivate in our children the sophistication, maturity, responsibility, knowledge and growth, entertainment, on the other hand, aims to generate a sense of carefree attitude and encourages us to be involve in fun activities.
Despite having a huge difference in the aims, when education and entertainment combine together, it gives birth to a new concept known as edutainment. Edutainment acquires qualities of both education and entertainment, and makes learning interesting and entertaining.
In the recent years, edutainment has found its place in the mainstream education industry and is increasingly gaining acceptance among the millennial. There are several factors that give rise to the edutainment industry in India. Here are some of the reasons as to why edutainment is booming in India
Brings Life to Monotonous Education System
The Indian education system is way too boring of a system that is used to focus merely on intensive learning: writing assignments, doing homework and preparing for written examinations. With the concept of edutainment coming into the picture, there comes a difference in the learning patterns and students enjoy learning through gaming activities. Edutainment brings life to the monotonous education system and helps the education institutions in attracting children and enhancing the quality of education.
Innovations Introduces Children with Real-Life World
While traditional teaching practices focus on cultivating theoretical knowledge in children, edutainment helps the students meet the real-life world out there. With various innovative gadgets available in the market that make learning digitally appealing and interactive, it becomes easier for students to gain insights about real-life world and how they could interact with the world issues through their knowledge and experience.
For example, in edutainment theme parks, they recreate dreadful situations that could happen in real life world and encourage children to fight against those situations. In this way, innovations in edutainment introduce children with real-life world. Therefore, edutainment is demanded not only by parents and children but by schools as well.
Enhanced Social Skills among Children
In edutainment centres and theme parks, children learn to fight with the real life world together. The life skills they learn together make them more social with the world. Edutainment centres enhance their social skills and reduce their anxieties and insecurities that students usually face while they acquire education in traditional schools. Edutainment fills them up with self confidence and helps them to explore the world without being low on confidence.
This is one of the biggest factors that there is an increasing demand of edutainment among parents and children. Edutainment based learning helps them to grow up and develop many extracurricular skills.
