The True Path

The pattern of pedagogy of education varies across communities and cohorts. Young tribal children learners entering formal schooling for the first time can be easily overwhelmed by the new atmosphere in classrooms, surrounded by unfamiliar faces and the added pressure of learning from unfamiliar textbooks. Additionally, since children come from various language backgrounds, it is observed that they find it difficult to shift from their mother tongues to Odia (regional) language, creating confusion when teachers instruct them in any language other than their mother tongue. While addressing linguistic issues among the 62 tribes of Odisha in the early education sector, KISS was concerned about establishing language foundations among early learners. In order to address this issue, KISS has implemented Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE) since 2013. The MTB-MLE project addresses this learning challenge by helping young students transition from informal learning backgrounds...

Education plays a significant role in developing countries as a robust mechanism for facilitating inclusion of the disadvantaged and the socially excluded.The Founder of KIIT and KISS Dr. AchyutaSamantarealising the significance of education in accomplishing empowerment and development of the marginalised, such as the tribal populace, has rightly remarked that education is the third eye of a child. With physical eyes a child is able to see the world but it is with the third eye of education that he/she is able to discern the convolutions of society and is able to act as an agent of transformation not only for himself but also for his community and the society at large. With this firm conviction Dr. Samanta founded Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) as a fully funded residential institution, with the vision that no indigenous child should be deprived of formal education due to poverty and a mission to educate two million tribal children. Since its establishment in 1993 as a ...