Bridging Gap between Experience and Theory with Reference to the Triarchic Model of Education (Connecting Experience, Logic and Passion in the Teaching-Learning Process in B-Schools)

Nowadays, the industries are undergoing a tremendous transformation in terms of their interaction with the market and the competition level is also spurning due to multidimensional expectations from the consumer market. Consequently, the industries also expect their human resources to be highly prodigious as they constantly interact with the market or consumer and responsible for evaluating, understanding and synthesizing the consumer requirements. As a consequence, the B-Schools, the portals producing the quality human resource, in India has a prominent role in identifying the needs of Industry and customize their pedagogy in order to bridge the gap between industry expectations and the skill matrix of each budding professional. However, the teachinglearning processes is purely connected with cognition level of the students which differ from student to student. Further, one of the major challenges in postgraduate business education is not just the transfer of knowledge but evolve a passionate, diligent and virtuous professional in every postgraduate student. In this paper, the author propagates a new theory Triarchic Model of Education, which can be implemented in B-Schools. The theory is being trichotomic dimension which involves kinesthetic, intellectual and emotive training on the lines of contemporary industry expectations. Further, the theory deriving its essence from the Triarchic Model of Intelligence (Componential, Experiential and Practical) emphasizes on building a holistic individual who not only has loads of knowledge but also the passion to work, intellect to evaluate and physical health to drive.