EDUCATING EX-CRIMINAL TRIBES: Issues and Concerns
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- ISBN13: 9788131607886
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher Imprint: Rawat
- Pages: 244
- Language: English
- Edition: First
- Item Weight: 500
- BISAC Subject(s): Education
In this study, the author focuses on some of the important aspects and issues related to the education of the denotified tribal (DNT) communities. The author examines that for generations together the DNT families have been labelled as ‘criminal’ and have suffered dishonour and social negligence. Their children in particular have suffered social alienation from mainstream society. The stigma of criminality is still one of the major impediments in the smooth functioning of educational programmes for children among the DNT communities.
The aims and objectives of the study are to examine the education prevailing among the DNT children from colonial times to the present, to what extent has education been spread among the DNT communities after 65 years of independence and to suggest the ways and means for the betterment of the DNTs through education.
The study critically examines the character, education level and dimensions of educational problems being faced by the DNT communities in India in general and Andhra Pradesh in particular. What makes this work unique is the extensive fieldwork and the oral testimony that the author has laboured hard to collect and on its basis the whole research work is reconstructed.
The aims and objectives of the study are to examine the education prevailing among the DNT children from colonial times to the present, to what extent has education been spread among the DNT communities after 65 years of independence and to suggest the ways and means for the betterment of the DNTs through education.
The study critically examines the character, education level and dimensions of educational problems being faced by the DNT communities in India in general and Andhra Pradesh in particular. What makes this work unique is the extensive fieldwork and the oral testimony that the author has laboured hard to collect and on its basis the whole research work is reconstructed.
Malli Gandhi is presently working as Professor and Head, Department of Social Science and Humanities, Regional Institute of Education, NCERT, Mysore. His area of interest is nomadic, semi-nomadic and denotified communities. He has authored several articles on colonial construction of ‘Criminal’ Tribes which have been published in various international and national journals. His earlier works are: Development of Denotified Tribes: Policy and Practice (2006), Denotified Tribes: Dimensions of Change (2008), Tribes under Stigma: Problems of Identity (2009), Denotified Tribes: Retrospect and Prospect (2014), Educating Tribal Children: Issues, Concerns and Remedies (2015) and Tribal Culture in Andhra and Telangana: Tradition and Change (2016).