Analysis of Dashanami students participation in mathematics learning
Date
2023
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Department of Mathematics Education
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.
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Mathematics learning, Dashanami students, Culture discontinuity