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Understanding Diversity
• Expands the reach of education
• Improved learning outcomes during primary school
Notes
• Helps protect and preserve local languages
The home-school language divide can be overcome to a large extent by adopting
the mother tongue as medium of instruction in primary schools and gradually
weaning off from mother tongue and initiating learning of second and third
language. Local communities also have rich cultural resources: local stories,
songs, jokes and riddles, and art, all of which can be used to enrich language
and knowledge.
INTEXT QUESTIONS 20.3
Choose the correct option and fill in the blanks:
a) Using the mother tongue in pre school and primary schools will promote
less ______________ (retention/dropouts).
b) The use of mother tongue in preschool is important in helping promote
a feeling of _____________(pride/belongingness).
c) If medium of instruction is Bhojpuri but the parents speak English at home,
this is a case of home and school ___________________ (language
divide/language unity).
d) Mother tongue is the language spoken at _________________(home/
school).
e) Medium of instruction is the language used in ______________ (home/
school)
20.4 INFLUENCE OF GENDER AND CASTE STEREOTYPES
ON CHILDREN
20.4.1 Stereotypes
Stereotypes exist in all societies. Stereotypes are fixed ideas or assumptions
about a group of people. These fixed ideas or stereotypes or assumptions may
not be necessarily true or universally accepted. Most of the time how we
perceive each other can be determined through oversimplified assumptions
about people based on particular traits, such as race, sex, age, caste, religion
etc. An individual belonging to that group about which stereotype exists is
expected to have the characteristic of that stereotype. For example, if we meet
and interact with few individual belonging to a particular caste and exhibiting
certain traits and habits, we develop a belief that the members of this caste will
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