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Attitudes towards Mother Tongue Education in Manipur, Northeast India
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Varah, Sophayo Khamrang; Pawar, Deepak Tanaji – Language and Education, 2023
The significance of the mother tongue, and particularly mother tongue education, is widely acknowledged across the world. This study aims to investigate mother tongue attitudes of students, teachers, parents, and community members in Manipur. A self-report survey was used to collect data from 463 participants, and an exploratory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Native Language, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
When Teachers Take Notice of the Schoolscape: A Q Method Study of Teacher Perception of Schoolscape of Indigenous Tribal Minority (ITM) Schools of Chhattisgarh, India
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Uma Maheshwari Chimirala – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The Indian Constitution and the Directive Principles for State Policy (DPSP) aspire that individual states with Indigenous Tribal Minority (ITM) populations take special care to promote education and economic interests of the ITM communities. Despite Art 350(a) which explicitly guarantees (only) the ITM child education in its mother-tongue, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Indigenous Populations, Minority Groups
Integrating Traditional Educational Practices of the Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) into a Post-Secondary Context
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Prete, Tiffany D. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
The colonisation of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, has led to the subjugation of Indigenous knowledges and the structuring of an education system that excludes the use of Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. This paper makes space for and privileges Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) human development theory and articulates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Canada Natives
Incorporating Culture and Mother Tongue in Mathematics Learning: Counting Operation in Traditional Houses "Using Banyuwangi"
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Hariastuti, Rachmaniah M.; Budiarto, Mega T.; Manuharawati – Malikussaleh Journal of Mathematics Learning, 2020
House of Using "Banyuwangi" is one of the cultural components of the Using tribe in "Banyuwangi"-Indonesia which contains a lot of mathematical concepts. The existence of mathematical concepts in culture, commonly known as ethnomathematics, can be the basis for the development of mathematics teaching materials for elementary…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Foreign Countries
Exploring the Indigenous Language of Gujjar and Bakerwal Communities
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Bhat, Zahoor Ahmad; Khan, Mahmood Ahmad – Online Submission, 2021
The study aimed to explore the indigenous language of Gujjar and Bakerwal tribal communities of district Ganderbal of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The design of the study is qualitative in nature. The researcher employs purposive sampling in selecting the sample. The researcher surveyed 81 Gujjar and Bakerwal households and interviewed 22 (19 Male…
Descriptors: Tribes, Native Language, Indians, Ethnic Groups
Mother Tongue in Indigenous Script as Medium of Instruction: Discourses among Migrant Santals of Kolkata
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Das, Ruchira – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2017
Olchiki is the indigenous script of Santals, a dominant tribal community of West Bengal, formulated to promote and represent "adi" cultural heritage and traditions in their mother tongue Santali. The script was recognised by the Government of West Bengal in 1978 and was introduced at the primary level of education. However, there have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Indigenous Populations, Tribes