Role of Education and Diversity

ROLE OF EDUCATION IN CREATING

POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS DIVERSITY

Introduction
• Education which brings economic wealth, social prosperity
and political stability.
• Education is a major aspect of development of any modern

society and most significant indicator of overall
development of any region.
• Education is considered as basic social need of all societies.
• Through education one can acquire knowledge and

participate in the process of empowerment.
MEANING OF SOCIAL DIVERSITY
• Social diversity is a feature of a society which is
determined by caste, class, religion, occupational
pattern in a given territory. This is very different from
social hierarchy where society is divided into several
layers of superiority and inferiority.
• By 'social diversity', we mean co-existence of different

social groups within a given geopolitical setting or in
simpler terms, differentiation of society into groups.
Social diversity in India
• India has been considered as perhaps the

largest and most plural society in the world.
• Its plurality is in-built in its geographical,

demographic, historical, political, economic
and socio-cultural base. Its social diversity
has been expressed in various forms such as
languages, religions, tribes and castes.
Three kinds of social differences need special attention namely:
1.Gender
2. Religion
3. Castes.
Language
• Language is one of the main markers of

group solidarity (unity) in any society.
The social categorization in terms of
languages is much stronger than any
other social markers such as religion,
class, caste, tribe etc.
Social and Economic Group
• The children from different social and economic groups attend

different types of school.
• While the children from higher socio-economic groups attend

good quality schools (i.e. schools well equipped with
infrastructure and competent teachers),
• The children from disadvantaged groups end up in the poor

quality schools (i.e. single teacher, multi grade situations, poorly
trained teachers).
• Making special provisions to the disadvantaged children such as
girls, SC/ST and minority groups.
• Furthermore this also calls for going beyond the formal education
system and making provisions of non formal or alternative
education for children who either drop out or do not enroll at all.
HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE
COMMUNITY
• Community generally denotes a group of people who have common
interest and work together. We all live in a community and some of
the common factors that bind us to our community are
1. Language
2. Territory
3. Customs
4. Tradition and culture
5. Occupation
6. Common goal
Role of community to plays improves
education?
• Education in India is provided by the public sector as well as the private
sector, with control and funding coming from three levels:
• 1. Central,
• 2. State
• 3. Local.
• Community participation is a central and important factor in planning,

implementation and monitoring interventions for Universal Elementary
Education.
• Only community can promote the education by working with the school
or college Principal and teachers.
• The community can perform following.
1. Generating awareness about education benefits and
increasing enrolment.
2. To increase the daily attendance rates of school
students.
3. To increase girls retention in school.
4. Identifying, contributing educational and discussing
the possible solutions.
• The schools and college can perform better if there is close
linkage between the communities, which can be established
in the following ways:
• 1. Communicate regularly and clearly.
• 2. Encourage parent’s involvement.
• 3. Teachers should to guide and advise parents.
• 4. Share their skills and knowledge within.
CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY FOR
EDUCATION
• The major challenges currently being faced by the education system
in India are:
1. Achieving the Unfinished task to the citizens.
2. Cultural Nationalism and Nation Building.
3. Modern formal education
• One of the major challenges for the education system
in India has been to achieve universal elementary
education.
• The main reason for the delay in achievement is that
the education system has not been able to bring the
most disadvantaged groups, that is, the SC/ST and
girls and Muslim girls within its fold fully
Role of Teachers
• Role of education in Indian Society to create a positive attitude
towards diversity depends largely on teachers. Teachers, with the
help of inclusive education can create positive attitude in people,
particularly among the parents and those living in the
neighbourhood of their schools. The real challenge of inclusive
education is to meet the special needs of all children with and
without disabilities.
• The teacher who plays an important role in developing positive
attitude in students towards diversity. When implementing inclusive
, applying a particular teaching method for the whole class, teaching
centered on average learners, teacher-centred interactions are all
not desirable. The teacher by adopting ‘Students group interaction
methods’
Group Interaction Teaching Tecniques
1. Group Interactive Classroom Sessions
2. Co-operative Learning
3. Collaborative Learning
1. Group Interactive Classroom sessions
• This teaching techniques involves dividing the class into small groups, each
consisting of five or six students and assigning them different topics or sub-topics of
a subject and ask the group members to discuss among themselves the content.
• The central idea of this technique is, students learn through interacting among
themselves.
• Teachers will supervise the student’s activities and provide guidance whenever
required.
2. Co-operative Learning
• ‘Co-operative learning could be defined as “ It is a learning process

which provides students to get opportunities to learn in a group by
forming a number of teams, each consisting of a small number of
students of different levels of learning ability for understanding the
subject”.
• Share their knowledge, understanding and application of the differnet
aspects of the content material, or the course units and attain
prefixed level of learning proficiency.
• Executing Co-operative Learning

3. Collaborative Learning
• Two or mores students joining together, sharing their learning

activities and trying is achieve learning proficiency is known as
‘Collaborative Learning’.
CONCLUSION
• Education gives us knowledge and knowledge is power.
• Education is one important criterion to judge the level of
development of any individual and society.
• One of the major challenges of the education system in a
diverse country like India is to provide a quality education to all
the groups who are at different stages of development.
• The education system could be made successful if the
government will provide appropriate allocation of funds as well
as strict monitoring of education policies

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ROLE OF EDUCATION IN CREATING

POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS DIVERSITY

• Education is a major aspect of development of any modern

• Education is considered as basic social need of all societies.

• Through education one can acquire knowledge and

• By 'social diversity', we mean co-existence of different

• India has been considered as perhaps the

• Its plurality is in-built in its geographical,

• Language is one of the main markers of

• The children from different social and economic groups attend

• While the children from higher socio-economic groups attend

• The children from disadvantaged groups end up in the poor

• Community participation is a central and important factor in planning,

• ‘Co-operative learning could be defined as “ It is a learning process

• Executing Co-operative Learning

• Two or mores students joining together, sharing their learning

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