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- Title: Aboriginal Female Children in Kanyashrams of Orissa, India: A Critical Assessment of the Processes of Educational Institutionalization.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 15, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 307 KB
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Education varies widely from the perspective of time, space, context, and requirements. Different aboriginal communities possess their own systems of informal education. The dimensions of this informal education emphasize acquisition of competence, subsistence techniques, and traditional values in order to prepare children as effective members of society. Children learn to master these skills from an early age, but there are no special institutions, personnel, or rigid time frames for such instructions. Education is an informal process of learning skills and maintaining continuity with aboriginal traditions. As modern nation-states grow through absorption of smaller and weaker cultural entities, formal education is imposed, and a common national language, culture, and identity severely threatens the existence of aboriginal people as viable collective entities. In India, the Constitution now includes special educational safeguards for aboriginals (Mohanty, 2003). Aboriginal communities, commonly denoted as "tribal," constitute roughly 8 percent of the total Indian population. In 1960, the Scheduled Area and Scheduled Tribes Commission was established with the aim of integrating the aboriginal people into the mainstream. It was assumed that formal education would enable the aboriginal people to meet their needs and requirements, especially in a changing world, and that it would be instrumental in reshaping their "quality of life" by integrating them into the mainstream (Sachchidananda, 1990, p. 404). Following the recommendation of the Dhebar Commission, a number of Kanyashrams were opened in India during the fifth five-year plan, 1970-75. The term "Kanyashram" has been derived from the word "ashram." An ashram is regarded as a center of learning where the guru (teacher) and the shisyas (students) live together in a secluded congenial environment and where the teaching-learning process takes place in a natural way. Kanyashrams are residential schools meant for aboriginal girls. Students and teachers live together within the school-cum-dormitory premises. Similar residential schools meant for aboriginal boys are known as "Ashram Schools." These schools admit students from standard I to X. Some schools have teaching facilities from standard IV to X.