Educational Status of Scheduled Tribes in Coimbatore District
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2013
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Education is the key factor in acceierating the pace of deveiopment of any society. The tribal people are considered as a distinct ethnic group because of their
peculiar socio cultural traditions and economic practices. Being Inhabitants of remote rural areas, deep forests or hilly regions, the tribal people remained by and
large unaffected in all walks of life by the outside World and they were declared educationally backward. In India, many research attempts were directed at
analysing the tribal education. But there hove been limited effort focused on analyzing educational status of scheduled tribes in Coimbatore. Hence, on effort was
made to study the 'Educational status of scheduled tribes in Coimbatore District with the basic objectives of studying the educational status of tribal population
in terms of enrolment, dropout, and retention rate; finding out the attitude of the head of the family towards male and female tribal education; identifying the
determinants of demand for tribal education and recommend measures to promote tribal education. The study was related to 100 tribal households in
Tholampalayam village in Karamadai block of Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. The study was related to the time period o f2008 - 2009. The details relating to
enrolment, dropout, retention and problems in education were collected by administering an interview schedule to the head of the households. The study
attempted a logit analysis to Identify the determinants of tribal education and found that the Important determinants of demand for education of scheduled
tribes were father's education, fother's occupation and mother's occupation. To improve the educational status of tribal students the study recommends that
there is a need for establishing more number of schools within the locality and greater awareness has to be created about the importance o f education through
mass media and also with the help of non-governmental agencies.