Community engagement in schools: A study of a village in Jharkhand

Rastogi, Nupur (2020) Community engagement in schools: A study of a village in Jharkhand. Students’ Journal of Education and Development (6). pp. 67-79.

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Community’ has always been integral in giving valuable education to children. It has been since ages that members of a community have taken the responsibility of educating their children. From Buddha to Gandhi, education has never been thought of without the engagement of the community. It was only in colonial times that schools started mushrooming, and a disconnect emerged between schools and the community. Pre-colonial history shows that teachers used to be from the community, and their salary used to be paid by the combined efforts of the community members. But the colonials made the teacher a ‘paid servant’, by offering a job and ‘government salary’. It led to the distance between teacher, school and village. Since then, teachers and schools are alienated from the village and see each other as separate entities (Kumar, 1991).

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