Correct Answer - Option 2 : be placed in regular schools and efforts should be made to adapt the curriculum and facilitate learning for all the students in the context of their social and cultural context.
A socially disadvantaged child is one who is from a socially and economically backward section of the community, who cannot avail from school because of deprivation of one sort or another.
Such children show cumulative academic deficits, high dropout rate and progressive decline in intellectual functioning.
Remedial Measures-
- The curriculum should be specific and related to the needs and real-life experiences.
- Emphasis should be on learning manual skills, life skills and technical efficiency.
- Interest in learning has to be, created by the teacher, effort should be towards developing self-confidence, self-respect and a sense of cultural identity.
- The socially disadvantaged child need special requirements of a learner calling for a specific adjustment in regular education programmes.
Here it is clear that students from disadvantaged backgrounds should be placed in regular schools and efforts should be made to adapt the curriculum and facilitate learning for all the students in the context of their social and cultural context.
Causes of Social Disadvantage-
- Some of the major causes are unstimulating environment, lack of verbal interaction with adults, poor sensory experience, poverty, low social status, malnutrition and broken homes. Most of these causes are due to socio-cultural disadvantage.
- Such a child has characteristics like backwardness, frustration, aggression, inferiority complex, alienation and lack of motivation.
