Distance Education Research Paper

Women Empowerment through distance education.

Kongala.Rama.Rao. Dr.Yeluri.Ashok.Kumar

Dr.Kranthi.Kumar Mandali. T.Raveendra Lotsch Kasi Rao .Kate Dinesh.Epuri.

Introduction

Education in India is constrained by the socio-economic conditions of the people, their attitudes, values and culture. Earlier education was linked to the socio-religious, institutions, reinforcing the patriarchal social structure .During the British period; education became a tool of colonial power, enabling a small minority to have access

Undoubtedly, many women are able to combine both roles with smooth adjustments, particularly if the husband and family members are co-operative and supportive. However, in many families the conflict between both the roles has created estrangement between either the husband or the wife and the other members of the family.

Distance education

Distance education is a system of rational actions for the imparting of knowledge, skills and attitudes ,whereby the originally direct social relationships between teacher and students are substituted to a great extent by indirect relations which are characterised by technical rules and prescription ,a context –free language, conditioned prognoses and conditioned instructions ,goal attainment with the help of target –means relations ,and the systematically increase of effectively.

The goal of women’s education

The important goal of education in the context of women’s development is for inculcating the values of gender equality and gender justice, for removing the discriminatory attitudes and for bringing about attitudinal changes among the both men and women on valuable role contribution of women development and their rights and equal partnership within and outside the family .Such a change in social perceptions and value among men and women are necessary for women to be empowered and society equal

The social evils like purdah, sati, enforced widowhood and child-marriage crept into the society much later and resulted in the degradation of their status. There were no institutions for education of girls during Muslim period, but girls did receive religious education in the recitation of the Quran in their homes .Under the rule, the East India Company was reluctant to take up the responsibility of girl’s education for a long time, due to the doctrine of religious neutrality, which was adopted by the Government so as not to offend the natives even on social customs that had nothing to do with the religion. The Indian Education Commission (1882) took a serious note of the status and education of women and rated it to be extremely backward and recommended measures for improvement .But, because of cretin socio-political reasons; no noticeable progress could be made. After Independence, the university education commission (1948-1949),set up by the government of India laid special emphasis on the education of women and recommended that in view of the similar fields of activity for men and women, and some specific requirements of women ,maximum facilities should be given for education in Home and economic department .

In the field of Women’s education, the S.N.D.T Indian Women’s university founded by Prof.Karve is the only ray of hope though faint it is, as compared with the darkness of the firmament. Let it be