INEQUALITY IN
SCHOOLING
PRESENTED BY,
AISWARYA S
RESHMA M S
BLESSY SANTHOSH S S
JOTHISHA M K
ABHIRAMI A S
INTRODUCTION
The education system is pestered with a lot of problems. One of
these problems is the increasing dimension of inequality in the
education. This inequality can be expressed in many ways. These
persists the problem of poor access to schoolings. A significant
percentage of school going population remains unenrolled in
regular schools. Enrolment in general and of scheduled Caste and
scheduled Tribe children and girl in particular is very low. All
India Educational Survey show that schools in rural areas and
slums in the cities lack basic schooling facilities-
building,furniture,blackboard,toilet facilities for girls,drinking
water etc. Poor attendence,low retention,low learning
achievement indicate poor ‘index’ of quality of schools.
Meaning Of Inequality
Educational Inequality is the unequal distribution of
academic resources including but not limited to;school
funding qualified and experienced teachers,books and
technologies to socially excluded communities.
More times than not individuals belonging to these
marginalized groups are also denied access to the
schools with abundant resources.
Inequality leads to major differences in the educational
success or efficiency of these individuals and
ultimately suppresses social and economic mobility.
DEFINITION
The unequal distribution of educational
opportunity,financial and educational
resources,qualified teachers or digital assests
that results in lessening of a student or
population educational,academic success or
performance.
It is the unequal distribution of academic
resources that would include school
funding,qualified teachers,books(textbooks and
library)and technology in disadvantaged
communities.
HISTORICAL TYPOLOGY OF
“INEQUALITY”
Two types of factors which address to this
phenomenon.
(i) Exogenous factors
These are factors that exist outside the
education system.
These are economic,social,political,technological
and cultural factors.
Education system,delivery of education etc have
been seen to be adressely or positively affected
by it.
(ii) Endogenous factors
These are those factors which lead inequality
from within the educational domain.
These are
Absence of schooling facilities
Poor organizational climate of the school
system.
Monotonous learning
Irrelevant unpleasant learning to a child
Truancy/absence of the child
Low achievement and droupouts
(iii) Qualitative Inequalities
It include
social barriers
Malnutrition
lack of guidance
(iv) Quantitative Inequalities
It include
Low income
Low achievement grades
CONSEQUENCES OF INEQUALITY IN
EDUCATION
Economic consequences
Poverty
Low intake of food
Low calories
Poor health
Poor purchasing power
Social consequences
Lack of education
Low educational status
Social stratification
Oppression in terms of caste
Religion
Social groups
Gender
Urban and rural population
Communal riots
Social crime
Political consequences
Low participation of people in poliical process
Corruption
Criminalization of politics
Cultural consequences
Alienation of social groups
Cultural degradation
Educational consequences
Negation of equal opportunities
Ignorance
Absence of motivation
Absence of enlightened and progressive
outlook
Weak educational demand
Poor adaptation of modern technology
INTERVENTION STRATEGIES TO
REDUCE INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION
i. Micro-planning
It means disaggregated setting where target
blocks are identified and these in family wise
and child wise design of action.
It would imply:
Mobilizing community participation in villages
i.e,cleanliness drives,healthand nutrition
camps.
Decentralizing educational administration so
that it is accountable to the local community.
Inviting and strengthing local administrative
and support system.
Finding educational requirements of the area
ii. Minimum levels of learning[MLL]
Assessment of the existing levels of learning
achievement
A definition of MLLs for the area and the time
frame within which it will be achieved
Clear –cut definition of the role of the teacher
and curriculum
iii.Structural changes
The more relevant questions are how to raise
the availability to school inputs,how to
distribute them more fairly and how to ultilize
them efficiently. The basic questions related
to these two aspects according to
Nalogounden are;
How to raise the availability of school inputs
How to distribute them more fairly
How to utilize them efficiently
iv.Effects of teacher traning
Improvement in teacher training
Upgrowing of existing teachers by provision of
enrichment materials
Inservice training and retraining of teachers for
new curricula
Some more steps to remove
educational inequalities
Free education
Other personal expenses
Provision of scholarships
Other helps for students
Education for CWsNs
Remove state based imbalance
Education for girls\women
Education for schedule castes and backward classes
Education for schedule tribes
Provision of adult education
Causes of inequality in educational opportunites
Regional imbalance
Poverty of parents
Differential standards of educational
institutions
Differences in the home environment
Gender display
Disparity between the advantaged and
disadvantages group
Conclusion
Our current educational system is not
performing as well as it could be many
students ,especially those who come from low
income families,ethnic backgrounds,and urban
communities are often left behind by a system
that fails to meet their educational
needs .Educational inequality is deeply
correlated with overall inequality as those who
came from lower income quintiles a tend to
perform worse at school and are less likely to
complete higher levels of education
Reference
Contemporary Indian Society
By Dr.Anga padu
Mr.Narender singh
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