Implications of Poverty on Children Readiness to Learn

Abstract

In this current era education is much needed one to survive in this world. Lots of implications are there to affect the learning of children. Due to poverty people are not able to fulfil even their basic needs. The people below poverty line focus only for fulfilling their daily needs rather than concentrating on their children’s education. Since the children do not get the required materials and facilities for studythey lose interest for study. Hence this leads to dropout of students from school. During this time it is necessary to know the reasons as well as the readiness of children to study. Therefore the researcher is making an attempt to analyze through this study the researcher is making an attempt analyze the implications of poverty on children readiness to learn. For this study purpose the researcher has taken into consideration the Madurai slum area. Interview schedule is used for the data collection and around thirty samples were taken for this purpose. Through this study the researcher is trying to analyze the causes of situation which create more of dropout among the children social demographic details, implications of poverty on children readiness to learn, and what is their need to overcome. The researcher has also come up with suitable suggestion for decreasing the dropout rate of schoolchildren