Academic Achievement of Tribal Students

ISBN-13: 9786202011310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str.

Steen Pagan

Opis

India is the home of largest portion of tribal people of the world. There are as many as 700 tribes are living in the land. It is reported that the tribal are still living a miserable lives without access to basic amenities such as education, health, food, sanitation, employment, communication and government schemes. So their education is must for the development of the nation. There are numerous challenges for the society for the overall development of tribal in the country. In this connection, this book is initiated to move ahead the discourse of tribal in the country. The author himself belong to this group of people and has been working on tribes at different junctions and contributed some works on the problems and prospects of tribes in India. This book is a research work for the award of academic degree at Sambalpur University, Odisha. This book gives some internal ideas of tribal education in Odisha in terms of academic achievement of tribal school students. So, it is the hope that this work may help people to broaden horizon of tribal issues who are directly or indirectly connected with them academically or in general.

O autorze

Steen Pagan is a research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and working on the indigenous knowledge practices of Kharia tribe. He has worked hard to bring the tribal issues through his different works in the forms of books such as schooling and dropouts among the tribal children, mental health and placement of tribal teachers and others.