Multilingual pedagogy: Context and implication for tribal education

Abstract

This paper intends to highlight the problems of tribal education in general and language related problems in particular. There are several academic problems of tribal students in comparison to non-tribal students. The academic problems include low enrolment rate, low retention, high dropout rate and low achievement etc. Many researchers have highlighted the political, social, cultural, historical and economic issues, but very little attention has been paid to the tribal education in the context of language especially the language of minority groups. In multilingual and multicultural situations where the presence of many languages the education gets difficult for students in relation to issues like language acquisition, comprehending concepts of contents, poor communication skills and implications in real life context. This paper focused upon issues and implications related to multilingual pedagogy in tribal education particularly in the light of language related to learners and teachers in different contexts like home, school and policy reforms.