Vol. 8, Issue 6 (2019)

Author(s):
Deepa Amgoth, S L Kameswari, R Geetha Reddy and P Sreedevi

Abstract:
Adolescence is regarded, as a unique phase of human development. It is a transitional phase of growth and development between childhood and adulthood. NCERT defined a dropout as a pupil who leaves school before the completion of a school stage or leaving at some intermediate or non-terminal point of a given level of education (school stage). There is a substantial lacuna among adolescent girls for being school dropout in tribal community; hence, an attempt was made to study the reasons for being school dropouts among adolescent girls of Banjara tribal community. Exploratory research design was used for the present study. The locale of the study was purposively selected as Maheshwaram mandal of Ranga Reddy district in Telangana State. Sample size of the present study was 60 Banjara tribal adolescent school dropout girls. The age group of respondents were 12 to 24 years who were randomly selected. Structured questionnaire was used to study the family related reasons for being dropout. Frequency and percentage were used to analyse the collected data. Results revealed that 53.3 per cent of the respondents were dropped out of the school due to “financial constraints” in the family. As much as 50 per cent of the respondents were dropped out due to the “early marriage” and “lack of parental interest towards education”. Hence, guidance and counselling is to be given to the family members since family is the primary source of information and support to their young ones so as they must be aware of education and importance of it for a better life.