Ashram schools are residential schools in the Adivasi regions that are designed for the purposes of access to education. For the Adivasi communities, separated by distance and social marginalisation, the residential schools hold tremendous importance and promise. The findings highlight the strong imprint of structural issues on the everyday learning especially the triad of health-nutrition-safety affecting the learning and teaching in Ashram schools. The analysis of classroom practices points out a number of pedagogic strategies that work very well in Ashram schools, but also indicates the struggles in English and Mathematics that affect the performance of students.
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru - 560012, India