Educational shocks of Khatwe women in Simardahi Village of Matihani municipality, Mahottari

Abstract

Education is the most dignified of human endeavors that enables humans to achieve their highest personal, spiritual, mental, social, and physical potentials. However, Marxian perspective on education blamed that educational system designed under economic infrastructure and superstructure has meeting the needs of capitalist interest. The mass people have been suffering from educational shocks as education and schooling in fact not yet connected to their life and livelihood. Therefore, this study entitled EDUCATIONAL SHOCKS OF KHATWE WOMEN IN SIMARDAHI VILLAGE OF MATIHANI MUNICIPALITY, MAHOTTARI aimed to analyze causes and consequences of education shocks. This study followed quantitative approach and case study research design through household survey technique. The sets of hand given self-administered questionnaires were filled up by 100 respondents who were visited in between January 15 to February 25, 2022. This study then applied descriptive statistical (frequency and Likert scale tabulation) method of data analysis. During interpretation of data, theoretical insights were brought from Marxian perspective on education, goral oriented theory and social capital theory. This study found that Khatwe women are suffering from multiple educational shocks such as learning shocks, cultural shocks, occupational shocks and status conscious shocks. Because of that they are not providing quality parenting role to their children but motivating them for school dropouts and encouraging them to involve in household chores. The variable school dropouts and occupational status as well as monthly income of the parents are not associated. Form Criticalists viewpoints; due to the occupational shocks and status conscious shocks, Khatwe women are encouraging children for joining foreign employment that helped to improve their family life and livelihood. However, from the functionalist viewpoints, due to the learning shocks and cultural shocks, Khatwe children are not getting motivational environment from their colleagues, parents and teachers. Such reasons made them hopeless with their higher educational voyage that is essential for future career development. Khatwe children are thus failed to complete higher educational opportunities that would help them to nourish their cognition and make them potential human capital. In doing so, they might play active and leadership role in the community and they might also become top level politicians, bureaucrats and development experts. Finally, the empirical findings are well supported by theoretical and empirical evidences reviewed in this study. Therefore, the study can be a reference for making evidence based policy to the local government for addressing the educational shocks of Khatwe women, improving their livelihood through management of share cropping and cooperative farming.