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6 Main Causes of Inequality in Education

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  • Inequality in Education
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  • Role of Education in Equalizing Opportunities:
  • Causes of Educational Inequalities:
    • Socioeconomic Factors
    • Religious beliefs
    • Rural Vs Urban
    • Cultural factor
    • The gender thing
    • The Disability Component

Inequality in Education

 Inequality in Education is basically non -uniform distribution of education resources, including but not limited to; finances for school, experienced and qualified tutors, books, and technologies to socially disadvantaged communities. These select people in the society tend to be historically oppressed and disadvantaged

Education Inequality is one of the major causes of social problems in the modern world. Because of the poor and deteriorating quality of the government schools, many more parents are willing to send their children to private schools, in spite of exorbitant tuition fees. These schools generally generate better interest in learning because of smaller class size, higher academic standards, better teacher-student contacts and greater discipline.

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Inequality in Education

Family income plays a crucial reason affecting access to education. Government schools in tribal and remote areas are almost non-functional, making it difficult for students of communities and of poor families to have equal access to quality education.

Role of Education in Equalizing Opportunities:

It is now widely held that provision for equality of education has become a key requirement for improving people’s social status. In contemporary society achieving merit and ability is only possible through education. Education plays a significant role in propelling individuals towards upward social mobility.

Education plays the role in equalizing opportunities in three important ways:

1) By creating opportunities which should be made available for all those who have the desire and the ability to be profited by it

2) By preparing a content of education which endeavors to promote the development of scientific and pragmatic outlook

3) By establishing a social environment based on religion, language caste, class etc to provide equal opportunity to secure good education.

Causes of Educational Inequalities:

Factors that may result to educational inequalities are:

Socioeconomic Factors

An extensive gap exists between the rich and poor, and this is also visible among many communities in any society. This extensive gap is an obvious reason of educational inequalities. The reason for that is that encourage of a rustic’s preference to present all its citizens identical opportunity in education, not all societies do insist on a similar social and financial equality.

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 Wealthy members of the society do afford, so to mention, steeply-priced and better training for their children. The institutions with greater resources will generally tend to have more social services together with faculties and hospitals than an area of strained financial resources. Thus, a kid born within a more able family may have a better academic access than his counterpart in the poor communities. The gap between the wealthy and poor in all societies is an enormous factor which contributes to inequality of access to the college of one’s desire.

Religious beliefs

Religion may be at variance with formal academic accessibility. In the predominantly Muslim areas across many sub-Sahara countries lagged behind due to religion. Formal education in Kenya for example, was majorly delivered by Christian missionaries and access to it first depended on conversion to the new religion. This created resistance to formal training many of the Islamic community.

Rural Vs Urban

Children in rural areas studying in poorly equipped schools have to compete with the children in urban areas where there are well-equipped schools. The poor exposure of rural children may lead to their poor performance

Cultural factor

Culture influences desires and characters of both the person and a specific society and can contribute immensely to inequality of education opportunities. In every nation of the world, there are groups of the society that do not appreciate the formal education. Such communities will reluctantly allow their kids to pursue education. In Kenya, as an instance, transhumance societies including the Maasai, the Somali and the Turkana have lagged behind educationally.

The gender thing

Educational opportunities for girl child tend to be less in comparison to those of boys’ child.  This can be attributed to the conventional beliefs which limited the girl’s position in society. Even in this contemporary time, there are certain areas in every African and other parts of the world in which school enrollments for women are much lower than those of boys.

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The Disability Component

Plight of the disabled in developing nations is just beginning to get the required attention and being appreciated as part of the public educational system. Many initiatives and measures are being taken in many developing countries to offer sponsored educational opportunities to the disabled kids at public schools. However, it’ll take a long time before each developing nation is able to identify all of its disabled children and classify them in step with the nature of their disabilities and establish relevant academic opportunities.

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