Ethnography of a school at Longwa village of Mon district

Pages: 1790-1797
Drabita Dutta (Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, New Delhi)

Ethnography of School alludes to the importance of ethnographic research methods to the investigation of exercises; execution and discourse on formal and semi-formal educational situations of the whole school on each gathering of understudies and day-care centers. In refinement to quantitative approaches to deal with Shalom school ethnography emphasize four important angles: environment of schooling, regulatory set-up, issues and acuities of educators, understudies, guardians, and village elite groups. The rationale of this study is what truly goes on inside this school and classrooms, what types of social course acquired in the school and how the students arrange and settle their everyday life at school and classrooms? It also assists in perceptive the approach parents, teachers and students towards each other to the schools. The details of ethnographic replicated on the educational understanding of the child and teachers in each school along with to identify the organizational configuration of the schools. Again, in the institution of schooling passes on merely a few of the cultural objects of the society. The executive structure of the organization of schooling, the school, is situated in which geographic-demographic location, with relationships of rights and responsibility among the school and Longwa village and its people. The school too is correlated by a set of connections of contact, rights, and compulsions to well-built social units – the school system and school panel, with Institute. The school is also correlated with the formal and informal political progression to the economic, cultural, and religious group welfare that set in motion the political development. The present paper argues for the relevance of culture of School in anthropological ethnography for the study of formal education and for expanding the capacity of such studies. It also implies a framework- a cultural transmission model and cultural ecological theory framework-that consent a qualitative methodology come under multilevel application of ethnography on formal education.