Analysis of Dashanami students participation in mathematics learning

Abstract

The present study entitled "Analysis of Dashanami Students Participation in Mathematics Learning" has main objectives to find out the participations of Dashanami students in mathematics educations in master level and to identity and analyze the causing factors of participation of Dashanami students. The design of this study was qualitative with a narrative inquiry. The data were collected by using purposive sampling method. The total samples were three where two are Dashanami students of Central Department of Education, Kirtipur and one is Dashanami teacher of Kapilvastu district, Shivraj municipality. I analyzed and interpreted the collected data from descriptive point of view. This research is related to the narrative inquiry of qualitative research. In this, the experiences made by the students during their mathematics studies through indirect interviews with two Dashanami students studying in Tribhuvan University and one Dashanami teacher from Kapilvastu have been compiled. The teacher's experience about Dashanami students during his thirty two years of teaching has been included in this research. After the analysis and interpretations of data, during the study of four batches of the Central Department of Education at Kirtipur, not even one student in each batch was found to have Dashanami. Only one participant was found in the fourth batch, zero in fifth and one in the sixth batch. It has been found that different causes. It was found that causing factors of participation of Dashanami students and they are: low populations, caste trend, economic situation, education situation of the family and geographical situation.