Awareness about Right of Children to Free and Compulsory (RTE) Act 2009 among Elementary Teachers in Coimbatore District

Reshmi Ramachandran*, G. Subramonian**
* Research Scholar, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, College of Education (Autonomous), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
** Associate Professor, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Education (Autonomous), Tamil Nadu, India.
Periodicity:August - October'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jpsy.9.2.3652

Abstract

As per RTE Act 2009, all children between the age of 6 and 14 shall have the right to free and compulsory elementary education at neighborhood schools. The facilities as mentioned in the RTE Act should reach into the hands of students properly and the teachers should have a good awareness level. This article explores the awareness of RTE Act 2009 among elementary school teachers in Coimbatore District. In this article, survey method was adopted with 100 elementary school teachers taken as a sample from Coimbatore District. A Personal Data Sheet was used to collect demographic information like qualification, locale, teaching experience and type of management. It was found that awareness level of average group was highest with 58% of the total sample. The mean scores of teachers in rural area was higher than the mean scores of urban area. In this case mean scores of under graduate teachers and post graduate teachers as well as teachers having teaching experience between 0 and 10 years and between 10 and 20 years are almost equal. From the total analysis it was found that the teachers are required to have better awareness about RTE Act in order to attain the aim of the Act.

Keywords

RTE Act 2009, Compulsory Elementary Education, Neighborhood Schools.

How to Cite this Article?

Ramachandran, R., and Subramonian, G. (2015). Awareness about Right of Children to Free and Compulsory (RTE) Act 2009 among Elementary Teachers in Coimbatore District. i-manager’s Journal on Educational Psychology, 9(2), 27-31. https://doi.org/10.26634/jpsy.9.2.3652

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