ENSURING QUALITY EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN RURAL BANGLADESH: COMPARATIVE STUDY ON FORMAL AND NON-FORMAL PRIMARY EDUCATION


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Authors

  • DR. GAZI IBRAHIM AL MAMUN Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Dhaka City College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • SELINA AKHTER Lecturer, Department Of Political Science, Eden Girls College, Dhaka.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46291/cenraps.v1i1.4

Keywords:

Quality education, Formal and Non-formal primary eduction, Children, Rural Bangladesh.

Abstract

Bangladesh is committed to ensuring quality education for all. In this purpose, there is categories study/education system at the primary level of education. One is formal primary education school run by the Bangladesh government and another is non-formal primary education school run by NGOs. Both types of primary education’s main objective are ensuring quality education at primary level. But there are many problems in these two categories of an education program. But quality education’s main characteristics enable all learners to develop the capabilities they require to become economically productive, develop sustainable livelihood, contribute to peaceful and democratic societies and enhance wellbeing. The learning outcomes that are required vary at the end of the basic educations cycle must include threshold levels of literacy and numeracy and life skills including awareness and prevention of disease. In this circumstance, the learning method will be flexible and the environment of the school will attractive for children. But the environment and learning method mean model of quality education is an absence in formal government primary school, although non-formal based NGOs school have practised low this model. In this perspective, the main focus of this present article is to comparative analysis between formal based government primary education and non-formal based NGOs primary education. To examine which is a better system for ensuring quality education at the primary level and an attempt is also made to suggest some alternative propose/proposal for ensuring quality education at the primary level of education. In the analysis of the results given in the study, it is seen that the non-formal education is more effective than formal education in primary education level to ensure the quality education of children in the rural communities of Bangladesh. Therefore, the results of this research will play an important role in improving the quality of non-formal and formal primary education.

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2019-08-18

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AL MAMUN, D. G. I. ., & SELINA AKHTER. (2019). ENSURING QUALITY EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN RURAL BANGLADESH: COMPARATIVE STUDY ON FORMAL AND NON-FORMAL PRIMARY EDUCATION. CenRaPS Journal of Social Sciences, 1(1), 35–53. https://doi.org/10.46291/cenraps.v1i1.4

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