A Contemporary Overview about Status and Challenging Issues of Tribal Education in India

India is the second-largest tribal population in the world. However, after the seven decades of independence, the tribal groups are disadvantaged and socially backward from the cycle of growth in many areas such as health, education, employment, and empowerment, and more. Among these, for tribal society, education is an essential requirement. The state and central governments have initiated several programs to educate tribal groups. Many of these programs have achieved only 10 percent of the targets. The vast numbers of tribal peoples are missing their education at various levels. They lag in education due to the high illiteracy rates among the tribal population relative to Scheduled Castes (S.C.s). Hence, the time has come to consider tribal education and inclusive growth seriously. In this context, the comprehensive literature review seeks to provide a contemporary overview of India's current status and challenging issues of tribal education. The paper is purely based on second-hand information from various research studies conducted in India and collected from different government sources. The outcomes are more helpful in implementing schemes that can improve tribal literacy and inclusive growth perspectives.

‘WASTAGE’ IS A CHALLENGE OF TRIBAL EDUCATION -A REVIEW BASED STUDY

India is a motherland of large number diverse communities. Tribes are called as ‘Adivasi’ or socially backward class people mainly lives in forest, hills, and rural remote area. There are more than 8.6 % of total population (Wikipedia) are tribes with around 645 tribes communities in India. In the question of tribal education a huge number of students are out of school, the literacy rate is below of national average literacy and significant literacy gap is found among the tribal male and female. So, in this juncture the objectives of this review based study are a comprehensive understanding regarding the Tribal dropout based on the existing literature reporting govt. initiatives and reasons of dropout in India. The study identified many reasons behind the dropout and explored equity and equality related issues faces challenges and a huge number of tribal children are out of school and deprived from accessing quality education

Educational Anthropology, Tribal Education and Responsible Citizenship in India

Despite much anthropological research on education in India, the importance of educational anthropology is not properly acknowledged. This article argues for fuller recognition of educational anthropology as a helpful tool to generate well-informed grassroots research throughout India. It connects this argument to concerns that education among tribal and other marginal communities reflects problems over acceptance of diversity. Educational anthropology could help to support sustainable, people-centric educational policies, curriculum construction, and above all better-focused teacher training. Its interventions can provide cohesive glue for nurturing responsible citizenship for all Indians and would facilitate better integration of peripheral tribal communities and other minorities as responsible citizens of a huge nation that claims to be based on respect for composite culture and unity in diversity.