Study of tribal women’s (bhoi tribe) attitude towards their children’s education in ri-bhoi districts of Meghalaya

Education gives us knowledge of the world around us and changes it into something better. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. Education creates awareness within people i.e. discovering themselves and around, acts as the major catalyst and prime factor for bringing out the social change and transformation. Though, a lot of work has been done by different agencies to bring social changes through education for the Bhoi tribe still it seems inadequate in terms of area spread and the quality. The people are mostly The objective of this study is to find out the attitude of the tribal population of Ri-bhoi District towards education and to find out the obstacles which hinder the process of learning, which is the prime enabler for socio-economic, socio-cultural development and overall upliftment and development. The descriptive survey research method was used for this study; the sample consisted of 100 respondents which was selected by using of a simple random sampling technique. The findings of the study revealed that there was a mixed attitude of the respondents towards educating their children and there was no significant correlation between the education level of tribal women with their attitude towards education of their children.