Volume 4 : Issue 1 & 2 January to June (2017)

A ROLE OF FAMILY AS A TEACHER FOR NURTURING CHILDREN

This paper is an attempt to study the impact of certain variables on family’s educational environment and achievement of child. The objectives of the paper were to study the effect of parent’s education, number of children in the family and type of family (nuclear/ joint) on family’s educational environment and achievement of the children. For the study 103 students of standard 7 were selected. Following the process, they were instructed to handover the questionnaire to their parents. Thus the sample of this study was the 103 families (father/mother). Investigator used survey method for the study. A questionnaire was designed to collect data about family’s educational environment. The analysis of the data reveals that mother’s education matters in achievement of the student. Father’s Education hardly had any impact on educational environment or achievement of the student. The effect of number of child and type of family (nuclear/joint) has not been seen in the result. There was a positive relation between family’s Educational environment and achievement of the child. The result observes that one has to focus on family’s educational environment for the betterment of the development of the child.

Family, Educational environment & Achievement of the child.

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