Effect of School's Environment on Dalit Education

Abstract

The study was conducted to identify the effect of school's environment on Dalit education. Dalit are known as the disadvantage communities who are culturally categorized as the untouchable caste in society. Legally, it is not allowed to do discrimination in spear of social activities on the basis of caste and ethnicity even though it is still practice. The study was conducted among the 227 Dalit students in Nawalparasi district of Nepal. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the respondents from the Dalit communities. School enrolled children were participated in this study.   Self-reported structured questionnaire was formed in 5 point Likert's scale to collect the perceptual data. The study found that There is significant association (p = .000) found on perception of different grade students on the chances of sitting in first bench of classroom, problem faced during the taking drinking water in school, teachers' response towards the problem or question raised by Dalit students and response of school administration towards the problem or question raised by Dalit students at the significant level p = 000 of each test which is less than p = .05. Whereas, there is no significant association (p = .157) found on perception of different grade students on the problem faced during the using of canteen in school. From the discussion, it was found that school environment can effect on learning of Dalit students.